Ann Voskamp Quotes

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

Ann Voskamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLiveSurviveDareThroughNumb

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

Jimmy Scott

CourageMeLifetimeDevelopNeeded

I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

Jim Nabors

MyselfMindThoughtChurchNever

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

Jesmyn Ward

WritingStartFocusingReallyUntil

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

John Ross Bowie

ArtChallengeSomeoneYouWantBig

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

Amy Winehouse

YesGoingStillMisbehave

When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment - a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson's building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.

Stephen Curry

ShoesMeMomBuildingHelpPlace

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.

Sugar Ray Leonard

MoneyMountainMeLooking BackWin

George Bush created lots of jobs.

Michael Steele

CreatedJobsLotsGeorge BushBush

I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

Judge Reinhold

CharacterToughComedySituationOut

It's always nice to hear people say, 'You sound the same,' when I know I don't.

Johnny Mathis

PeopleYouKnowNiceSaySound

I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.

Colin Jost

ComedyBackGoNeverAnythingGone

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.

Bonnie Hunt

LoveCharacterGreatPeopleCity

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