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The name’s Lorika, friends call me Lori. I'm a moderator on the site, so if there's anything I may help you with, please do not hesitate to IM me.
My passion lies in art, whether it be painting, drawing, writing or acting.
I plan to study journalism, or something of that nature in the near future. Until then I’ll remain an English Tutor.
I like standing in the rain, the feel of stockings on shaved legs, pearls, the smell of burnt paper, cigarettes and wine, dreaming, picking flowers before ruining them, freshly cut grass, the smell of books, de-masking others, cracking my fingers, and walking alone on the pier at night.
I dislike when somebody I’m not fond of touches me, the sound of clipping nails, mornings, late trains, thunder, day-to-day routines, reality, creased clothing, unreliable people, mascara on my sheets in the morning, and swimming in salty water.

Oh, and if you want to see me play a mime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YgElOEZZ2s

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Quotes from the FCC Drama team, 2007:

Jackson: "I don't want food, I just want that sandwich..."

Hensley: "The chicken made my cousin sick..."

Hensley: "Paulie's a pimp!"

Emma: (Crossing the road) "We're running out of little green man!"

Jackson: "Want a toothpick, Paulie?"
Paulie: "Nah! I got sick from sucking on your toothpick..."

Emma: (Pointing to a person dressed in black) "Lori? Is that a real life emo?"

Emma: "Low pitched... slightly lower than before pitched..."

Hensley: "Man I hate Paris Hilton! She's so plastic!"
Lori: "Toothbrushes are plastic...  they're  nice..."

Emma: "Lori? Why are you so stuffed up?"

Lori: "Editing your solo is like giving birth to a baby, then choosing which limbs it could live without...."

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 Favourite Paragraph:

" We are all like flies trying to crawl over the edge of the saucer, Mabel thought, and repeated the phrase as if she were crossing herself, as if she were trying to find some spell to annul this pain, to make this agony endurable.
Tags of Shakespeare, lines from books she had read ages ago, suddenly came to her when she was in agony, and she repeated them over and over again.
“Flies trying to crawl,” she repeated.
If she could say that over often enough and make herself see the flies, she would become numb, chill, frozen, dumb. Now she could see flies crawling slowly out of a saucer of milk with their wings stuck together; and she strained and strained (standing in front of the looking–glass, listening to Rose Shaw) to make herself see Rose Shaw and all the other people there as flies, trying to hoist themselves out of something, or into something, meagre, insignificant, toiling flies.
But she could not see them like that, not other people. She saw herself like that—she was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer.
(Envy and spite, the most detestable of the vices, were her chief faults) " - Virginia Woolf, The new dress.

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Favourite poem:

'Despair'
Ann Sexton

Who is he?
A railroad track toward hell?
Breaking like a stick of furniture?
The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool?
The love that goes down the drain like spit?
The love that said "forever, forever",
And then runs you over like a truck?
Are you a prayer that floats into a radio advertisement?
Despair
I don't like you very well,
You don't suit my clothes or my cigarettes,
Why do you locate here?
As large as a tank
Aiming at one half of a lifetime
Couldn't you just go float into a tree?
Instead of locating here at my roots?
Forcing me out of the life i've led
When it's been in my belly so long?
Alright!
I'll take you along on the trip!
Where for so many years,
My arms have been speechless...

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Quotes From A Few Favourites:

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny..." - Bertrand Russel

"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin..." - Leonard Cohen

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love..." - Leonard Cohen

"People think i'm a miserable sod, but it's only because i get asked such bloody miserable questions" - Nick Cave

"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet.... it's gone..." - Marlene Dietrich

"Most women set out to try and change a man, and once they have changed him they do not like him..." - Marlene Dietrich  

"If there is a supreme being... he's crazy..." - Marlene Dietrich

"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one..." - Frances Farmer

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