Lorna Luft Quotes
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
Jaclyn Smith -
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
Jack Canfield -
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
Ralph Boston -
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
Idris Elba -
Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
Wale -
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Eckhart Tolle
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward -
Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Ed Markey -
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Larry Page
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee -
I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
Kat Graham -
I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
Adam G. Sevani -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
Kate Millett
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I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.
Joe Thomas -
Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'
Emmy Rossum -
It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
August Bournonville -
Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
Lauren Willig -
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
Bob Newhart -
I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Lorna Luft