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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.


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ABIGAIL GEORGE I'm starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. At...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect an...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.
ABIGAIL GIBBS Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, ...
ABIGAIL THOMAS Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, ...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditi...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situa...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls playe...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN Passion can’t be planned; only felt.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER Doctors know nothing. Well. That's kind of unfair. Let's just say the world is unpredictable. Scienc...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Bure...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN