Anne Lamott Quotes

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1954

Topics

WorkHopeDo The Right ThingWait

I swam in high school.

Jimmie Johnson

SchoolHigh SchoolHigh

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.

Ann Leckie

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Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.

Stefon Diggs

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President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.

Robert Dallek

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I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing.

Rita Moreno

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I think God is the most fantastic designer.

Roberto Cavalli

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We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

Russell M. Nelson

NamesOurPleasedCorrectly

Literally, there is a lot of talk about sparks in the Kabbalah. It talks about when God created the world initially, there was an explosion that happened like a Big Bang but based on vessels and light.

Matisyahu

GodLightWorldTalkBig BangBig

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

Mike Dean

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I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

Christine Quinn

BelieveYouGoSunlightWayOut

I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.

Wynton Marsalis

YourselfAmericaYouAfraidBeing

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

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