Anne Lamott Quotes
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.
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I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
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I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.
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If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
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When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.
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You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
