Latest Lori Lansens Quotes from Interviews

• Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

  Lori Lansens

  California, World, This World

  Source: www.elle.com

• When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

  Lori Lansens

  People, Looks, Fringe

  Source: www.elle.com

• I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

  Lori Lansens

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

  Lori Lansens

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

• Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

  Lori Lansens

  Winning, Unusual, Unlikely

  Source: www.elle.com

• We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

  Lori Lansens

  Mean, America, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

  Lori Lansens

  Curves, Black, Latina

  Source: www.elle.com

• The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

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  Wonderful, Ailments, Wonderful Places

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

  Lori Lansens

  Compassion, Circles, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

  Lori Lansens

  Epidemics, Issues, World

  Source: www.elle.com

• I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

  Lori Lansens

  Men, Elderly, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

• Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

  Lori Lansens

  Book, California, Southern

  Source: www.elle.com

• When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.

  Lori Lansens

  Sports, Team, America

  Source: www.elle.com