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I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
L.A. Reid
Success
Generation
Young
Doors
Nothing
Live
Else
Our
Some
Open
Opening
Up
Creators
Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
L.A. Reid
Videos
Go Away
YouTube
Station
Online
More
Demand
Like
Because
Still
Go
Traditional
Selling
Listen
Want
Decide
Themselves
Stardom
Away
Play
Program
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
L.A. Reid
Best
Myself
Think
Everyone
Out
Tries
Songwriter
Artist
Whether
Producer
Who
Publicist
Bring
I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
L.A. Reid
Kid
Brown
James
James Brown
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid
Life
Good
Distance
Way
Sign
Out
Stay
Potential
React
Read
Shelf
Shelf Life
Goal
Artist
Then
Businessman
I'm a geek! I'm a fan girl; I'm very proud of that. Get me near Orlando Jones, it will not be pretty.
Laeta Kalogridis
Me
Will
Girl
Geek
Pretty
Proud
Very
Get
Fan
Near
Orlando
Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
Laeta Kalogridis
Natural
Treat
Car
Will
Carelessness
Our
Resources
Those
Worst
Indifference
More
Self
Instincts
Like
Becomes
How
Itself
Very
Than
Repository
Human
Just
Human Beings
Just One
Fancy
Natural Resources
Body
Beings
'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
Laeta Kalogridis
Women
Book
About
Tale
Talking
Glorifying
Advocating
Handmaid
Happens
Theocracy
Creating
Show
This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
Laeta Kalogridis
Future
Art
You
Kind
Uncomfortable
Make
Designed
There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.
Laeta Kalogridis
Father
College
Lawyer
Rather
Idea
Period
Because
Becoming
Cured
Where
Swiftly
Brief
The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
Laeta Kalogridis
Nature
You
Entertainment
Something
Area
Always
Line
Essential
Want
Whether
Realize
All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
Laeta Kalogridis
World
Social Media
Our
Constructing
Through
Identities
Audience
Modern
Modern World
Social
Us
Media
Largely
Larger
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
Laeta Kalogridis
Science
Mirror
Holding
Society
Kid
Correction
About
Course
Science Fiction
Up
Fiction
Loved
Us
Warning
Need
The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
Laeta Kalogridis
Challenges
Difficult
Carries
Female
Being
Intersection
There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
Laeta Kalogridis
People
Value
Gender
Before
Differences
Other
Else
Hundreds
See
Seeing
Something
Something Else
Writers
Put
Expectations
Tiny
Happen
Placed
Certain
Your
Aware
I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.
Laeta Kalogridis
Art
Time
Me
Experience
Every
Spend
Out
Guys
Feel
Invites
Look
Most
Piece
Gosh
Because
How
Lot
Wonder
Figuring
I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.
Laeta Kalogridis
Women
Believe
Society
Our
Going
Anywhere
Against
Personally
Violence
The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
Laeta Kalogridis
Future
World
Live
Headed
Toward
To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.
Laeta Kalogridis
You
Three
Other
Top
Jobs
Writer
Where
Grail
Holy
Working
Holy Grail
On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
Laeta Kalogridis
Me
Women
Reality
Gender
Battles
Never
Always
Issue
Been
Hand
Lot
Get
Place
Page
Fought
Awful
Awful Lot
Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
Laeta Kalogridis
Darkness
Seen
Honestly
Say
Runner
Would
Blade
Blade Runner
Never
Read
Because
Hand
Left
Oh
Decided
Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.
Laeta Kalogridis
Job
Overwhelming
Superhero
Metaphor
Being
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.
Laura Ziskin
Myself
Girl
Everybody
Someone
Putting
Liked
Always
Wanted
Little
Little Girl
Producer
Show
Organizing
Who
Describe
Even
Actress
Plays
You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
Laura Ziskin
You
Able
Develop
Know
Make
Proud
Wanted
Movies
Produce
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Laura Ziskin
Cancer
Diagnosed
Breast Cancer
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
You
Cancer
Everybody
Out
Find
Touched
Know
Diagnosed
How
Disease
Epidemic
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