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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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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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 like to have something to base a role on.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
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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.
