Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes
You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.
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There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
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I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.
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'The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.'
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
