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Lynn Abbey Quotes

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Lynn Abbey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Feet Tide Unknown Open Whatever Up

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

Jim Lehrer

People Go Want Places Where Bells

There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

Andy Garcia

Good Quality Writing Story Design

The good life is built with good relationships.

Robert J. Waldinger

Life Good Good Life Relationships

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.

Matthew Desmond

Community School Roots Plant You

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

Ann Cleeves

Unique Country Place British Closer

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Mike Birbiglia

Culture Construction Perception Weird

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

Jared Diamond

Animal Pigs Cattle Smallpox Disease

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

Jonathan Levine

Evolve Filmmaker Going Different

I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.

Doug Liman

Think Professionalism Director System

Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.

Clay Clark

Time Culture Haircut Chance Look

You have to prepare yourself mentally and physically by training and knowing how to take care of yourself the best you can so that you're able to fight and get to where you want to be.

Bray Wyatt

Best Yourself Training Fight Care

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Pete Rose

You Over Dominate Any Sport