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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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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 married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
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Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.
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The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it.
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I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.
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A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.
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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.
