Abbey Lee Kershaw Quotes
I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
