Abbi Glines Quotes
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
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If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.
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I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.
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He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
