Jessica Abel Quotes
I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
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He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn’t driven her away. “I’m not sure I know how to love, Louisa.” She took his hand. “Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.
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Without exception, all of the horrors connected with Christianity’s name came from following the letter rather than the spirit of the law, or by insistence upon literal interpretations - while the spiritual, imaginative concepts beneath were ignored.
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Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
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I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.
