Edward Abbey Quotes
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Many are called but few get up.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.
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People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
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When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
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They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
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The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.
