Jenny Lawson Quotes

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

Jenny Lawson

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The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful.

Jennifer Connelly

HappinessBeautifulCulturePeople

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

Max Lucado

CompassionSupportBelieveThought

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

John Krasinski

PartnerYouTroubleGoWantWrite

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

Robert Morley

GameNamesCatchThrownMuchWere

Life has many twists and turns.

Max Baucus

LifeTwistsManyTurns

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

Matthew Stewart

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For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

Andy Serkis

TechnologyMeActingNeverBetween

I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.

Aneurin Barnard

KnowWantAwayStraightThoseRoles

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

Tracee Ellis Ross

LifePoliticsMeThinkMy LifeMost

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Mason Cooley

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I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'

Miranda July

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There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

Chris Daughtry

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