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Anne Lamott Quotes

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moments Look Others More Up Made

I liked television, and television liked me.

Me Television Liked

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Robert Rodriguez

Children Speak Television Find Own

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

Music Great Art School Theatre Up

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

People Island Up Set Encouraging

I grew up with a marine grandfather. I was never allowed to say 'can't' or 'no', and I was never allowed to back down.

Back Down Grandfather Say Never Up

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Patience Wife Game Golf Person Know

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Talent Boy Own Sing Who Songs

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Dorothy Allison

Family Women Vision Me Think

I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'

American Done Band Line Got Idol

My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

Christina Baker Kline

Mother Women Brilliant She Dynamic

I know Packers fans are invested in the team - even more so than the rest of the country.

Clay Matthews III

Team Rest Country Know More Fans

When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'

Time Day Amazing Me Fashion Thought

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