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.
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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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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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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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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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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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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.
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So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.
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People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
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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.
