Lorna Luft Quotes
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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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 was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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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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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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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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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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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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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
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My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
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The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
