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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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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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The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.
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Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley -
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
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He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
