Jessica Abel Quotes
How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Desire creates its own object.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
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Too many hearts have been brokenFailing to trust what they feel.But trust isn't something that's spokenAnd love's never wrong when it's real.
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'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
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I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
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But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
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I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.
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A lot of times people say, ‘You act like a grandmother, you’re just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
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How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.
