Anne Lamott Quotes

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ParentsWorldBelieveHelpYouTry

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

John Cusack

DemocracySorryThinkPoliticalYou

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.

St. Lucia

LifeGetting OlderParentsThinkYou

I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.

Stormzy

GoodSchoolLooking BackLookingNow

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Trai Byers

BibleReadCoverBeforeCouple

No two directors make the same film the same way.

Rob Cohen

WayTwoSameFilmMakeDirectors

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

Ronda Rousey

IdentityPeopleMeFighterAccept

If I'm slimmer, I feel better about myself, but I don't lose weight for anybody else or for a magazine.

Lucy Davis

MyselfBetterFeelLoseWeightElse

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.

Johnny Depp

PeopleCareerMoviesLuckySeeBig

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Douglas Coupland

ArtCreativityWonderKindBigger

I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. 'E.T.' was big for me.

Anya Taylor-Joy

WorkLoveMeBigBrothersSpielberg

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

Annette Bening

GreatTimeClothesActingDressed

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Richard Lamm

FutureChildrenGreatBabyThink

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