Laura Ziskin Quotes

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

Laura Ziskin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 3, 1950 - June 12, 2011

Topics

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The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

Maysoon Zayid

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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Matthew McConaughey

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The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

Travis Scott

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When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Michael Owen

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I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.

Joshua Malina

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I watch a lot of drama because I do associate comedy with work.

Janet Varney

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You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

Jared Polis

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I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

Johnny Van Zant

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Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Clement Freud

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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Anne Carson

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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

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I hate to shop.

Alicia Silverstone

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