Abbey Lincoln Quotes
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.
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The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
