Lawrence Bender Quotes
Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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My health is fine.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.
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Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor.
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You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.
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Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
