Ann Voskamp Quotes
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
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Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.
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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
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I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
