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Tête-à-tête with Gloria Loring. Cont'd.

MH: How do you bring life and all its emotions to stage when you perform?
Gloria: I ask for grace and open my heart, knowing we all want to be touched and inspired.
MH: Are you fun? What do you do for fun?
Gloria: I can be. I love to laugh and tell jokes with friends. For fun every day, I chase my dogs around the house. I love to travel with my husband and family members, as there are always silly things that happen that you look back on and have as a shared experience.
MH: What was the best compliments you have ever received?
Gloria: The ones my sons give me every Mother's Day about the positive influence I've had on them.
MH: Any regrets in life?
Gloria: Oh, I suppose some linger deep down, but I try to ignore their rumblings. I know I've always done the best I can do at the time and I have found that as I've been able to forgive my failings, I've been able to forgive those of others.
MH: Do you believe in immortality? What is immortality to you?
Gloria: I do believe that spirit is not born and does not die. For me spirit is life energy, so somehow, I go on. I don't know the form it takes, but it warms me to think of a progression of life unto life.
MH: Do you care what people say about you?
Gloria: I guess I do, somewhat, but not the way I used to. It used to cripple me to know anyone was mad at me. Now it's more like a mosquito bite. Annoying, perhaps.
MH: Does your music or poetry evolve with time or transcend it? Do you write for a particular audience, with age and musical preference in mind, or just you write and sing the way you feel it and believe in it?
Gloria: Just what is in my heart and mind at the time, hoping that if it's true enough, it will touch that truth in others.
MH: You made it big time in showbiz. Was it a stroke of luck?  And meeting all those superstars whom you worked with, was it destiny, being in the right place at the right time, connections or simply , they have acknowledged your talent and decided to give you a chance?
Gloria: It's always both. As one spiritual teacher says, "There's grace (luck) and self-effort, like two wings of a bird."
MH: What did you do to get noticed by those superstars?
Gloria: I sang!
MH: What success means for you?
Gloria: Now? Living my life exactly the way I want to. Not taking a job because I have to, but because I want to.
MH: What did you do first, short after you got your first break?
Gloria: I sang from the time I was a little girl and got my first acting job in my early thirties.
MH: If you were not a singer, composer, actress, author, poet, lecturer, celebrity,  speaker, humanist what would you be doing today?
Gloria: I wouldn't be here! I think that's what I am here to be and do.
MH: While you are performing, writing or composing, do you look at the faces of people who surround you?
Gloria: Yes, yes.

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