Lysette Anthony Quotes

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Father
  • North Carolina

• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • You
  • Stick

• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Morning

• 'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

  

  Sally Field
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Cheers

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Abuse
  • Taxation

• Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Stand

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Fight

• When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

• Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.

  

  H. Burke Peterson
  • Heart
  • May
  • Charity

• When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Job
  • Best
  • Professional

• The Church, the organized expression of the religious life of the past, is one of the most potent institutions and forces in Western civilization. ...It cannot help throwing its immense weight on one side or the other. If it tries not to act, it thereby acts; and in any case its choice will be decisive for its own future.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Future

• Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

  

  Max Carver
  • Risk

• I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

  

  Lysette Anthony
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  • Heart
  • Father