Abigail Washburn Quotes
In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
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Quantum physics is quite interesting. All these tiny particles are there as much as they're not there. That to me is very, very interesting. And how our thoughts change the outcome of an experiment, I think that's all quite spiritual.
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You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
