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.

Ann Voskamp

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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Bored

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Tea
  • Head

• Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • God
  • Important
  • Family

• 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.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Start
  • Does

• 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.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Step

• 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.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Artistic

• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Laws
  • Legal
  • Houses

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Child
  • Slavery
  • Slaves

• I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Family
  • Together
  • Marriage

• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • Value

• There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Intelligent

• My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

  

  James Broughton
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Miracle

• 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.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Waiting