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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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Genius is independent of situation.
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Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.
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I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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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.
