Anne Lamott Quotes

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Joanna Newsom

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The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

Jerry Hall

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I found a favorite chord, which is B flat 7 - that's my favorite chord.

Jens Lekman

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Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

Jeremy Corbyn

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But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

Maurice Jarre

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There was a model in my high school. She was like, 'You're so pretty. You should come see my agency'.

Anna Ewers

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I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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The thing about 'Next to Normal' is that it really is an ensemble piece for six actors. They are all asked to do very important things in the show, and I think all six are equal in terms of telling the story.

Tom Kitt

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'Fitoor,' in a way, signifies my journey through the years. It's a collection of 10 songs that I have written. It's basically about what I have been experiencing.

Mohit Chauhan

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In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

Jay Parini

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

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I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

Ari Graynor

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