Lynn Abbey Quotes
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am a Zionist.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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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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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.