Ann Voskamp Quotes
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I am a very selfish person.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
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'But the implication of the psalm, is it not, is that we are sheep and that God is our shepherd? Why else would He put us in a pasture and protect us with a staff? But what I have never fully understood is why the shepherd blames the sheep when they become ill.'
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
