Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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The only people that should vote should be legal.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
