Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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People will always make comparisons.
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At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.
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Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
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What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.
