James Lankford Quotes
The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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There's something healing about tears.
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I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
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Doing right is never wrong.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationships is a key part of being a leader - and increasingly so, the higher you go.
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The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.
