"I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide."

-- Laurie Notaro

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“The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.”
“I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.”
“He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.”
“Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.”
“I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think is a goddess and an unbelievable actress, and she introduced herself. As she walked away from the table I had to take a deep breath, which was strange because I've never had that with anyone.”
“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
“That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.”
“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

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