Jessica Abel Quotes
What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
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I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
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What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.
