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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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
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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.
