“The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.” Quote by Alan Ball
“I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.” PeopleWritingTryingChristianityLordShareFundamentalsDearScaredAcceptedNeuroticMessed UpQuestions AskedDear LordStrength And Hope Author:Anne Lamott
“I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.” WantFeelsMotherSonFlowerGratitudeRaisesEndureObligationTeethCelebrateMy SonLunchDisplayMothers DayGritAnnualsWant Him Author:Anne Lamott
“I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.” WritingTryingYearsStillsHardMotherNamesCasesHusbandArgumentThirdsDiedLaysRaised Author:Anne Lamott
“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.” KindWholeCultureFameQuietAnxietyLowsGradesFulfilledColleaguesStaturePreschool Author:Anne Lamott
“I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.” GivingFunnyReadingVoiceAudienceStageReaderGive MeLoudHelpfulFraudAnnoyingFrightPhonyLove Of ReadingStage Fright Author:Anne Lamott
“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.” RealMomentsJobsLastsFoundLostBornTwentiesTrackQuittingMagazinesTiedPackagesTwenty OnePrestigeI QuitTied UpReal JobsSmall Packages Author:Anne Lamott
“I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.” WholeHelpingMotherEasierDiedWhole LifeBitterLoadPsychicsTrunks Author:Anne Lamott
“I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.” LittlesFeelingsJoyVoiceRoomsRaisedRageDisgruntled Author:Anne Lamott
“I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.” PersonsReligiousJusticeLevelsMoralRightsInfluenceTrainingRaisedCivil RightsActivistEthicalSecularPeace And Justice Author:Anne Lamott
“I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.” ReasonCollegeMaryland Author:Anne Lamott
