Abbey Lincoln Quotes
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
