Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes
Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.
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I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.
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I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
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Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
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I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
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Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
