Anne Lamott Quotes
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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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 was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.
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I would die to make you mine Bleed me dry almost every time But I don't mind, no I don't mind it I would come back 1000 times
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He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.
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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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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
