Lela Loren Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.
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America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.
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I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).
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I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.
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I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.
