Abigail Washburn Quotes

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

Abigail Washburn

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• I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

  

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• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

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• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

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• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

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• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

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• Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  

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• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

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  • Music
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• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  

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• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  

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• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

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• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

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• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

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• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

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• A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

  

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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
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• Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

  

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  • Music
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• My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.

  

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• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
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• I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

  

  Al Roker
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• With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

  

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• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like