“Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.” Quote by Robert Hilburn
“Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.” MindReading80sGreat WorkCanonReading Poetry Author:Anne Lamott
“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.” PeopleNeedsHumansPersonsStillsHomeAbleLeftStuffDarkCasesConditionsDrugScaryAlcoholShyPoeticWhere You AreHuman ConditionBack HomeScary Stuff Author:Anne Lamott
“I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.” NaturalPathMeditationUnderstood Author:Anne Lamott
“I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.” BelieveHardChristianI BelieveTerribleI Believe InMeditating Author:Anne Lamott
“I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.” IfsBelieveHeartSpiritI BelieveGrowsListeningI Believe InKicks Author:Anne Lamott
“The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.” Different Author:Anne Lamott
“If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.” IfsAudienceHugeBigger Author:Anne Lamott
“He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.” PeopleTryingMatterUseWantedSongTroubleMessagesMeaningfulLiftsCashBobDylan Author:Robert Hilburn
“My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.” WritingPagesSevenEightParagraph Author:Anne Lamott
“Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.” WantDreamInterestingHonestyYour DreamsAcidReally InterestingAcid Trip Author:Anne Lamott