Lyman Abbott Quotes
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
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Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.
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If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about what I saw. I would want to give him a chance to explain. However, depending on how major the flirting was, I would probably mention it to my friend - just to let her know what's going on.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
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Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.
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Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
