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 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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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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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
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For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
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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.
