Lorna Luft Quotes
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
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I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique ... They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
