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Ann Voskamp Quotes

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 10, 1973

Topics

Soul Joy You Down Thug More

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

Jerry Goldsmith

People Small Action Choice Quiet

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

Music Food Think Our Souls Really

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

Year Bad Animals Most Built

I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.

Country Play Rock Why Understand

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

Sturgill Simpson

Everything Where Just Records Knew

I'm just an actress, so I can leave my work when I leave the set. I don't get strange calls in the middle of the night, and I don't have tons of responsibility.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Work Responsibility Night I Can Get

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

Opportunity You Years Decide Compete

I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.

Fan Album Actually Formula Huge

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

Easy You White Down Place New

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Childhood You Tyranny Sometimes Only

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

Girl Time School Dress Me Chocolate

We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.

American Know Street Well Families

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