#mother

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#got #grandfather #great #had #her

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic. ↗

— Ang Lee

#dramatic #everything #goes #her #i

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#designed #family #her #house #mother

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. ↗

— Al Lewis

#center #garment #her #immigrant #life

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#comfort #energy #find #had #i

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#decision #did #finally #focus #had

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#afraid #everything #exception #her #i

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#divorce #marry #money #mother #said