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.
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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.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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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.
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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.
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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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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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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.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
