Lynn Abbey Quotes
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
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A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
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The two motor driven 'mobiles' which I am exhibiting August, 1933 are from among the more successful of my earliest attempts at plastic objects in motion. The orbits are all circular arcs or circles. The supports have been painted to disappear against a white background to leave nothing but the moving elements..
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.
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Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.
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Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
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One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
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Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
