Abbie Cobb Quotes
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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There's no business like show business.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.
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Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
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History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
