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Mama is my chance to be Chris Rock. She says things I would never say. I let her push the envelope.


Vicki Lawrence

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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
VICKI LAWRENCE She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'
DEREK WALKER People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE He'd be challenged when he was out. I would let it roll off. Lawrence would respond differently. He ...
TONY BANKS I wouldn't say they have zero chance, but I think it's a pretty good chance Lawrence North is going ...
BRANDON MCPHERSON She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like usin...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG He was repeatedly saying move things forward, push the envelope, jump over the envelope.
ANDY LESTER My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.
ANONYMOUS It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to be her...
CATALIN ALUPOAICEI It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God – it didn't have to be h...
CATALIN ALUPOAICEI It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God – it didn't have to be ...
CATALIN ALUPOAICEI When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never to...
RUSSELL MEANS My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...
NEIL GAIMAN I spent the whole morning looking at him. He looked at Mama. Mama looked at me. Then he would look a...
MELINA MARCHETTA I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make peo...
INA MAY GASKIN When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins suc...
KATHERINE DUNN If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!
ADRIANA LIMA My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was s...
DOLLY PARTON She is very little to understand Mama is not going to come back. But she understands Mama is in heav...
ENRIQUE SALAS I think that Mama June has the greatest self-esteem on the planet. I always say to people, 'If I...
BLAKE MCIVER EWING I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ...
ROBERT BLAKE I get a letter once a week from my mama. She say everything fine at home..
I write her back to...
WINSTON GROOM My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she...
TREVOR COLE Next season, I would expect more from him. I'm always going to push the envelope a little bit, and I...
MIKE HOLMGREN It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God â€â...
CATALIN ALUPOAICEI Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and sa...
VICKI LAWRENCE [I] still had many years that I would have loved to spend with my mom...Our kids have never had the ...
JULIE FOGLESONG I called up to Mama, "Is this a miracle?" She raised and lowered her shoulders. Her voice drifted do...
EDWARD KELSEY MOORE They tried to treat her as a cutie pie. She wouldn't let anyone push her around.
IRENE CLURMAN still push the envelope.
JOEL HOLLANDER I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from...
SARAH DESSEN I never really had the chance to say goodbye to the fans. I had a chance at the White House to say g...
AARON ROWAND Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
KELLY ROWLAND Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know t...
CARL DODD Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
T.E. LAWRENCE Who would have ever thought that Mama Bell would become a sexy lady? ... But she suddenly is very, v...
FRED KETCHEN What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person o...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN She never let her illness get her down. I never once saw her without a smile on her face. She was so...
LEANN SCHMIDT I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be ...
RUBY ROSE I think I was about to say that if I ever see Eliza again—and the fact that this is even a remote ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO She has said two or three short sentences. When she sees here children, she says 'I love you.' At fi...
MAGGIE MERMIN My biggest worry about her was that she would overdo. There were some days we had to almost push her...
KAREN KAHL I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
PAIGE VANZANT I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited f...
KELLY BUTLER My mother is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh...
ANGELA MOORE Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing toda...
SONU NIGAM The dedication she has and the will she has to play are great. She keeps us up constantly. She needs...
ESTELLE LASHBROOK Tomorrow is the day that I finally get to chase my future.
Tomorrow is the day that I make her...
E. S. CARTER Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I tol...
MARTIN APPEL What did you call her?" she asks but I don't think it's her real question.
"Sunshine," I say, a...
KATJA MILLAY May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble."
"Wh...
VERONICA ROTH She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says,...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it wo...
AVAN JOGIA My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say thi...
SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE We knew this would be a very physical game. I told my players that we would have to step up and play...
DAVID HOWARD But once in a while one loses his heart and once I think I did too, but never Mama. Her heart stays ...
TUPELO HASSMAN Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Except she wasn’t Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her hu...
BARBARA DELINSKY She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If...
ANN BRASHARES When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w...
J.J. MCAVOY You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I
called her t...
JEANIENE FROST The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be ...
DWAYNE JOHNSON I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I st...
FELICIA DAY I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you."<...
PITTACUS LORE I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
MEL BROOKS Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pre...
KOKO BROWN All I want to do is find out where my mama is and have a funeral for her.
FRED SAVAGE ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa...
GASTON LEROUX I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my...
MERLE DANDRIDGE Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You wo...
NANCY RAWLES Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.
She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And wh...
JOHN GREEN I know you’re in there, Mercedes,” Faye says. “I can see your dirty Converse shoes. You really...
LAURIE ELIZABETH FLYNN One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her ...
MARC CHAGALL In two easy strides, I reach her, weave my arms around her waist and lift her feet off the ground. M...
KATIE MCGARRY She is a girl so I wouldn’t slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think ...
BRANDON BOYD But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't...
GLORIA STEINEM My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you pro...
MAGGIE Q How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself...
EILEEN COOK I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could jus...
AMY REED You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. ...
PATRICK NESS My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was in...
SANDRA LERNER It would seem that retailers have had a tendency to push the envelope with regard to marketing their...
CHRISTINE PRITCHARD You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her...
TONY DUNGY Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY We didn't run any offense, so we never gave her a chance to get involved or she would just bring it ...
CRISTY MCKINNEY She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc...
RICK YANCEY The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly.

She arched an eyebrow. “Are...
RICHELLE MEAD My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. T...
DOROTHY ALLISON Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she'...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The biggest thing I try to teach her is when and when not to push the ball. She never forces anythin...
LADONA PIERCE I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
BERNADETTE PETERS I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall wher...
TYLER DURDEN Dad, is she serious?"
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she does...
MOLLY MCADAMS The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has prop...
RANDY SCHEKMAN Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her me...
JACQUELINE CAREY They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure ther...
CELESTE NG I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented t...
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BROTHER LAWRENCE There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE Youth and patience are foreign to one another.
R.J. LAWRENCE It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.
R.J. LAWRENCE Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
LAWRENCE LESSIG If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
D.H. LAWRENCE [in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL