Ann Voskamp Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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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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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
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If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
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Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
