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 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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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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I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
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This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
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The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.
