Ann Voskamp Quotes

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

Ann Voskamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DayChristmasWearyKidsArrive

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

John Hodgman

TruthI AmSomeoneValuesWhoAm

Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.

Robert Kiyosaki

PowerPeacefulGoWillOilRoof

In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

WorldBelieveWineNaturalSomething

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.

Toni Kroos

FootballSameIdea

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

Michael Symon

UpBuyingFirmStuffMakingThem

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

Dexter Gordon

FutureMusic

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

Conrad Black

StrengthWarMoreRealOutCarry

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

Anson Mount

PeopleHeroesPlayingNot Interested

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

Alice Oswald

JobFreeMeant To BeNeverOutHead

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Peter York

AdvertisingAlwaysSourceArtsBeen

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

Peter Hollingworth

SchoolSelf-ConfidenceYouKnowLow

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Richard Marx

BestTogetherWritingResultEnemy

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