Anne Lamott Quotes

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyResponsibilityPeopleWorld

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

Melissa Rosenberg

WritingFightingEnoughDemonsYou

We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.

Matthew Walker

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I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

Anika Noni Rose

BeautifulStyleWalkArchitecture

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

Michael Caine

LifeThinkDoingYouWantMore

Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.

Luis Fonsi

GoodMusicBetterDoorsI CanShy

I don't have a lot of downtime.

Dean Norris

DowntimeLot

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

Cliff Stearns

FutureI AmFaceRetirementSecurity

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

Shane Black

ReadThousandNovels

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thomas Overbury

BeautyDeepSkinOnly

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

Marine Le Pen

FightTerrorismIslamCancerSide

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

Lewis B. Smedes

I AmSupportMeThinkViewFind

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Gladys Knight

SoulSpiritWhateverJustInnerUse

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