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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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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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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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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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.
