Lauren London Quotes
I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I started out doing musicals.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
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I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.
