Abigail Washburn Quotes
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
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Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
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People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
