Lorna Luft Quotes

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Earth

• The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Stupid
  • Internet

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Country
  • Parents

• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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  • Acting
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• My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Religious
  • India
  • Temples

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Pleasure

• As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

  

  Liz Murray
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  • She
  • Mother

• If I’m ISIS, I call her (Hillary Clinton) up and I give her the most valuable player award. ... And I guarantee you with Libya, which was her baby, and all of the other mistakes she has made. Obama takes now, because obviously, for him, that’s the better alternative, all right? But he has been an incompetent president. He has done a horrible job.

  

  Donald Trump
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  • Done
  • She

• Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Death
  • Wish
  • Suffer

• I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

  

  Pete Coors
  • Believe
  • Marriage

• My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Mother