Lorna Luft Quotes
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.
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There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
