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 attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
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Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.
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When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.
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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.
