Ann Voskamp Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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GQ: 'Who’ll be the first of the Smiths to die?'M: 'Me. I’ll be shot – probably by one of the ex-Smiths.'
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I'm trying to get out of my own way.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
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Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
