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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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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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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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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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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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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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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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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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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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I don't want to get fat.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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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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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.
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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.
