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I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Lorna Luft

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Lorna Luft
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 21
Film Actor
Film Actress
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Surviving
Choose
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Thinking
Life
Coping

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I used drugs as a social activity a way to have fun with friends.
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
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A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your real. Because you're going into the land of make believe.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.
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I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.
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There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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