Cleveland Abbe Quotes
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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When I come up with a melody in my head, it could be anywhere: in the shower, on the plane, in bed - often when I'm on the go. I'll record it on my phone with my own voice, humming. When I get to the studio, I check which melodies work.
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Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
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I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
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I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.
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I think it's inspired. It's her mission. It's her goal. I think it shows the kids that there is something to be done in the world.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
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I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.
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It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
