Lynn Abbey Quotes
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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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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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
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My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.
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Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
