Lynn Abbey Quotes
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
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I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.'
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One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
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The age thing is just a number.
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When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
