Karen Abbott Quotes

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

Karen Abbott

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 23, 1973

Topics

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I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Joan Didion

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Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.

John Cameron Mitchell

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The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in the audience, I think this is great. It means we touched the person's soul.

Andris Nelsons

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I love working with ensemble groups of actors.

John Hillcoat

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For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

Tucker Carlson

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I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

Ron Chernow

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Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Mike Royko

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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Janis Ian

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When everybody's looking at you, it does your head in. When you're always on the inside, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

Dolores O'Riordan

LookingTreesForestYouSometimes

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

Delta Burke

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