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Anne Lamott Quotes

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Change Time I Am People Seem

I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.

People Slavery American Powerful

We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Life Live Freedom Rain Light Words

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

Opportunity Society Free Strong True

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Robin Coste Lewis

Thought Know Write Poet Because Had

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Job Worth You Way Working Starts

The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.

Michelle Huneven

Life Reality Impact Literature More

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Life Long Normal Cannot Sustain

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

Me Motorcycle Easy Country Never

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Work Time Questions Trying Long You

'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!

Great Time Sickness You Movies Damn

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

Health People Care Better Improve

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Man Growing Up Growing Up Sure Both

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