Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.

Lauren Shuler Donner

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• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Long
  • Future
  • Transform

• When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Person
  • Just

• I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Fan
  • Bewitched

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Struggle

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
  • Ship

• Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Brain

• I love to conduct opera.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Opera

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Moving
  • California
  • Economy

• He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Father

• The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

  

  Jason Fried
  • World
  • Reality
  • Risk

• Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, Madonna's and shameless nudes.. ..has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. I have transformed myself into the nullity of forms and pulled myself out of the circle of things, out of the circle-horizon in which the artist and forms of nature are locked.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Habit

• It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • God

• I don't really have time to approve every shirt and sticker that gets made but I have been heavily involved in the big stuff like toys.

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Shirt

• Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Process

• I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner