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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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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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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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'
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It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can.
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'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.
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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.
