Lori Petty Quotes
I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.
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When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
