Abbey Lincoln Quotes
There's nothing to scream about because in America we're all one blanket, everybody feels the same way about things, they just need some money.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.
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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.
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There's nothing to scream about because in America we're all one blanket, everybody feels the same way about things, they just need some money.
