Lynn Abbey Quotes
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. - Speech in Paris, 1934
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.
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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
