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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Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.
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Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.
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We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we pursue the project with reliance on science broadly and on our full span of epistemic competences, including the empirical as well as the a priori.
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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
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The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.
