Barbara Mattes Abercrombie Quotes
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.
Quotes to Explore
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.
