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 don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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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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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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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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When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
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When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.
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I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.
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In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.
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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.
