Lisa Lutz Quotes

I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

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• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • She
  • Fun

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Heart
  • May
  • Growing

• You can't tag me as a regional actress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Me
  • Actress

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Know
  • Never
  • Books

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Games
  • Adventure
  • Characters

• People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'

  

  Ian Gomez
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Reality doesn't interest me.

  

  Leni Riefenstahl
  • Reality
  • Interest

• A child needs your love most when he deserves it least

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Deserve

• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Different
  • Space
  • Purpose

• The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • God
  • Cat

• There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Family
  • Character
  • Friends

• I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Parents