Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes
I would say that the first 'X-Men' was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.
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When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.
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Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
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I would say that the first 'X-Men' was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.
