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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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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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.
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You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.
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The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
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Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.
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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.
