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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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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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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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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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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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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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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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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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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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
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We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
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I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.
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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.
