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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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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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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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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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.
