Lorna Luft Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Accept loss forever.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
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I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.
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I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
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Dinah had all the class.
