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Laeta Kalogridis Quotes

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

Laeta Kalogridis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1965

Topics

School People Silver First Producer

I sat down with CBS, and we talked about me developing a show for them. At the time, I was meeting with a lot of networks. And I told them, 'I don't want to be acting on your show as the token black guy. I want to do something that will change a network and will change the way people view African-Americans on TV.'

Jermaine Fowler

Change Time People Me Black View

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

You Double Count Some Votes Makes

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Sun People Moon Up Persuade Deliver

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

Good Value Me Face Bad Way

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

Power Opportunities Actor Become Lot

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.

Work Yourself People You Said Want

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

Dance School High School Down Know

I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.

Michelle Phillips

Beautiful Time Creative Space Me

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Start Meaning Creating Run Become

My life has been a magnificent indulgence.

Life My Life Been Magnificent

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

House Feeling Choice Piece Every

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

Life Experience Writing Think Fake

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