Lynn Abbey Quotes
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!
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Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
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We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
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And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
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My favourite thing to do in any city is just to get lost and go for long walks.
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It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
