Quote by Anne Lamott
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. – Anne Lamott

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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. – Anne Lamott

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Women
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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service. – Anne Lamott

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car
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If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott

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What we call evil doesnt necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it – so we can help prevent it. – Bryan Singer

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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in todays environment. And I know full well that when Ive been covering campaigns, which I still do, Ive made my mistakes and have been far from perfect. – Dan Rather

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To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success. – Hugh Jackman

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a mans self-respect is a sin. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Meyer and I have a bit in common because were both left-handed. I think its great that he seeks out that advice because hes not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it. – Barry Zito

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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. – Ellen Barkin

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I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today. – Graham Brown

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