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Jack Henry Abbott Quotes

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Jack Henry Abbott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mirror Look Find Painful

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Back Operations Anything Things Cure

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

Love Fool Child Mouth Play True

There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting.

Thought Person Point Working Artists

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Live People Me Apartment Above Who

My older sister was into grime, so she got me into it. When I was ten, I begged her to take me to my first house party, where there were decks and a mic. I ended up falling asleep standing up in the corner.

Me Sister House Party She First

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Myself Writing Screen Interest

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

Yourself Spiritual Easy You Flexible

There's always someone following your next step.

Step Someone Always Next Your

Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day.

Day Crazy Eating Think Diet You

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

Me Believe I Believe Audience See

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

Leonard Susskind

Family Father Fun Sick Poor Jewish

I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Reading Animals Need Meat Everything

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