8 Quotes & Sayings By Ann Marlowe

Ann Marlowe was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She attended Hunter College in New York City before graduating from Barnard College with a degree in English literature. She began acting on the stage, studying with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio, and landing roles in Off-Broadway plays. Her film debut was as an extra in an episode of The Fugitive (1965) Read more

She was later cast as Julie Barnes, the "hottest" girl on the show, in the 1969 film Easy Rider. Her next film appearances were in the 1971 films Catch-22 and Myra Breckinridge. She also starred as Lily Harvey, a socialite who becomes the object of desire for both men and women, first in Pillow Talk (1981) and then again in Divorce American Style (1983).

After that she appeared on television shows such as Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, and Surface. She also starred as Mrs.

Rutledge, an elderly rich woman who attempts to overthrow her father's will to his great-nephew, in the 1991 made-for-TV movie Fatal Remedies.

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It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins. Ann Marlowe
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It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins. Ann Marlowe
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The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn’t. Ann Marlowe
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The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't. Ann Marlowe
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Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward. Ann Marlowe
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Addiction is a bargain with the cosmos: only stay time, and I'll remain in this holding pattern, too. The uncrossable gap between now and the past is given tangible form and conquered, daily, in the real but bridgeable gap between what I need and what I can get. Addiction creates a god so that time will stop--why all gods are created. God might be another story. Ann Marlowe
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If I had to offer up a one sentence definition of addiction, I'd call it a form of mourning for the irrecoverable glories of the first time..addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia. That drive to return to the past isn't an innocent one. It's about stopping your passage to the future, it's a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience. And the love of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage done to users. . Ann Marlowe