Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
That's the whole thing: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I never make fun of the French.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People work hard.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.
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One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.
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There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
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That's the whole thing: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I never make fun of the French.
