"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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Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Laura Ziskin

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“When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.”
“Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.”
“The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.”
“You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.”
“I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.”

Source : "Rachel Bilson is ready for kids". www.imdb.com. April 25, 2012.
“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”
“I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'”
“I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”

Source : "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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