Anne Lamott Quotes

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CollegeGraduationAccidentally

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.

Jessica Chastain

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It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

Jelly Roll Morton

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I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Matthew Modine

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I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

Ann Hood

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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

Jed S. Rakoff

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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean Genet

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The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

Amitava Kumar

GoodArtYouLookNewWay

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Stjepan Mesic

TerrorismHumanRightsHuman Rights

You can still be very good at what you do and have fun.

Simone Biles

GoodFunHave FunYouStillVery

For years, 'Drag Race' was gay people's best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn't know anything about it. Look at it now: it's like it's gone from black and white to IMAX.

Trixie Mattel

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President Obama helped move this country forward.

Tony Cardenas

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