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Turn Quotes by Anne Lamott
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.…
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a…
- I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction.…
- A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the…
- We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's…
- We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The…
- I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood…
- If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
- O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
- If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin