Anne Lamott Quotes

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyIgnorancePeopleSuffering

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Joan Didion

WordsStartPossibilitiesYouPaper

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

John Bercow

WifePropertySally

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

Joel Kinnaman

WomenDaySpringBlossomWayFirst

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Jena Malone

AdviceYouYoungTrickyThing

Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

Jenna Blum

JobSchoolI AmMeBackStreet

Non-profits should be looking to enlist and retain the best people to aggressively solve problems, not to perform adequately and persist. We should expect people to innovate and do the highest-quality work and then reward them accordingly.

Andrew Yang

WorkBestPeopleLookingProblems

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

Ang Lee

ThinkDoingDistanceWayEqual

When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

Michael Sheen

MusicSeaAmericaListenWriteLike

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jorge Garcia

DailyPeopleRealityWayHumanStay

What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.

Johnny Depp

CharacterPersonalityManMeFind

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

WorkGoodAgeChanceReachDoing

All of those Shield guys, who came in protected, have done nothing but deliver, in my opinion, and I am a harsh critic of everyone.

Dolph Ziggler

I AmOpinionDoneNothingEveryone

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