Jack Henry Abbott Quotes

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 21, 1944 - February 10, 2002

Topics

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I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

Andrew Vachss

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Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Max Baucus

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The right to happiness is fundamental.

Anna Pavlova

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I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

Marya Hornbacher

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When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.

Julia Cameron

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The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.

Jonny Greenwood

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It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.

Jonathan Ive

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My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

Dawn Richard

OpportunityScienceMeCoolLibrary

Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

Bob Iger

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I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

Susan Egan

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For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

Shelley Duvall

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I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

Lily Koppel

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