Lynn Abbey Quotes

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 18, 1948

Topics

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

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Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

John Ortberg

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I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.

Aneurin Barnard

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Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.

Merce Cunningham

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We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

Steve Spangler

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As we all know, lasting relationships can't be rushed.

Simon Mainwaring

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I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.

Troy Polamalu

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The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Donna Leon

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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Dorothy Thompson

LibertyNeverForceAwayTaken

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

Donald Johanson

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I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.

Colin Mochrie

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It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

Clairo

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