Abigail Spencer Quotes
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.
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All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
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I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
