Laura Ziskin Quotes

#1. For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

Laura Ziskin

#2. Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.

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#3. We were all created differently, each with his/her calling and purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#4. In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,

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#5. In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.

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#6. I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

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#7. I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

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#8. The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

Kenneth C. Griffin

#9. Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.

Rachel Held Evans

#10. When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

Laura Ziskin

#11. Without finding out the little right paths, you cannot reach to your main right path!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.

Wallace D. Wattles

#13. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

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#14. I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

Henry Rollins

#15. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

#16. I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.

Kim Clijsters

#17. Cancer is everybody's cause.

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#18. You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

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#19. I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

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#20. Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.

Johnny Rich

#21. I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

Iain Duncan Smith

#22. The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

John Humphrey Noyes

#23. Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.

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#25. You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

Steve Jobs

#26. Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

John Fletcher

#27. 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