Lorna Luft Quotes

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1952

Topics

MotherDeathLooking ForwardForward

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

Jimmy Wales

PeopleImpactJournalismSeenBeing

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

Meg Tilly

WomenPerfectMessBecauseWomen Are

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Maya Angelou

LoveGirlWorldGoYoungSee

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.

John Lithgow

FunPeopleExpectationsComedyYou

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

SufferingOwnOnlyGloriousThing

Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.

John Waters

ChildrenSchoolMeBookReading

I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.

Solange Knowles

FamilyChildFeelAnythingLikeOwe

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Janet Weiss

YourselfBe YourselfFeelYouPlay

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

Alice Cooper

Be DifferentPlayNowDifferentDid

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

Pierre Omidyar

PeopleYouStrangersOverThings

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Sheldon Harnick

YouWillingScrapLotCollaborate

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

Tippi Hedren

WomanFightMeStrongBetterYoung

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