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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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'm not interested in celebrities, with their free dresses. I'm interested in clothes.
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The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.
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The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.
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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.
