Lynn Abbey Quotes

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Lynn Abbey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IdeasQuestionsTryingYouKnow

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

John C. Calhoun

GreatManWorldNameElectricity

I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

Jeremy Irvine

TeacherGreatChallengeSchoolMe

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Robert Mugabe

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As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

Amber Valletta

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I train hard Monday to Friday. I'll do weights and cardio in the gym most mornings and do a spinning class, too.

Amy Childs

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

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The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

Janette Turner Hospital

WorkTimeArtWordsMeStart

The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and that tables, it really was fairly painful.

Dennis Ritchie

ProcessPainfulOriginalObjectsDid

Democratic Latin America limps sideways because it can't run ahead. There are too many entry barriers to the poor, the innovative, and those without access to credit.

Denise Dresser

AmericaCreditRunAheadPoor

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

David Shields

BookMoreContentBetweenSubstance

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Chen Shui-bian

NatureTreeForestDownAffectEven

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

Bobby McFerrin

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