#own

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

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#better #blown #gets #me #some

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#else #found #gift #i #known

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#garbage #i #lately #lot #turned

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#did #every #fire #fun #movie

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing. ↗

— Joe Lando

#artist #besides #cause #commissioned #first

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part. ↗

— Joe Lando

#down #good #good chance #i #more

I think all of us create our own miracles. ↗

— Michael Landon

#i #i think #miracles #our #own

I've had the big ups and the big downs. ↗

— Juice Newton

#downs #had #i #ups