Quotes by Fun So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me. Anne Lamott falling-in-lovehatefun Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it. Anne Lamott writingrunningfun For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with. Anne-Marie Duff funjobsbelieve Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun. Anne-Marie Slaughter parentfunbelieve I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh humblefunbeautiful There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value. Anne Rice gamesfunbeauty Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. Anne Roiphe mirrorsselffun When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good. Anne Stevenson fun I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them. Anne Tyler what-mattersfunthinking After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood. Anneli Rufus togetherfunblood Most of the people that I've worked with when shooting films that I really respect, there is a point which you do become obsessed in a good way. And because it's a collaborative medium, you're not by yourself in a room tearing your hair out, you're in a room with a bunch of people. And we're all tearing our hairs out, or trying to get something right, or caring deeply about something. But that's fun. Annette Bening caringfunpeople I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious. Annie E. Clark littlesfunthinking My whole purpose is to bring what's hidden out in the open so people can look at it and discuss it. And sexually oriented material is very important to study in an academic setting. Controversy is part of the fun. Annie Sprinkle importantfunpeople It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event. Annika Sorenstam cheerpracticefun Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. Anthony Anderson independentcuttingfun I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things. Anthony Bourdain hatefunthinking I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun. Anthony Bourdain realhomefun Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. Anthony Bourdain artistwritingfun I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. Anthony Doerr maturityfunschool I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do. Anthony Green dadfunthinking«1920212223242526272829»
