I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Jerome Charyn
Related I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I... JIMMY CARL BLACK As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. GORE VIDAL I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's ... DAVID BOWIE I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how... JOHN MAYER I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was fo... SUSANNA HOFFS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band ... CRAIG ROBINSON If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that... ALEX KARPOVSKY I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I belie... JOHN MCCAIN There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ... J. TILLMAN Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons... RACHEL PLATTEN I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally tale... FELICITY JONES I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as... URI GELLER I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I ... RIVERS CUOMO I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I thin... CANDICE BERGEN Oh precious Lord! Oh precious Lord! Thou know them all The thought of my mind An... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it ... FEIST In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God. MICHAEL NOVAK If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wif... THIERRY HENRY The value of Eric Foner's 'The Fiery Trial' lies in its comprehensive review of mostly f... FRED KAPLAN In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ... VINNIE JONES If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. SAM WATERSTON I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that... ANNE HATHAWAY When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 son... MAC DEMARCO I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legis... ABRAHAM LINCOLN It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, w... ALVIN LEE I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosit... MADONNA CICCONE Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choic... PER PETTERSON I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don... RICHARD DIEBENKORN I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what ... DAVID CASSIDY I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I alwa... LAURA MVULA What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there'... LADY GAGA If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally ... MARILYN MANSON I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If o... BO SANCHEZ Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln. ABRAHAM LINCOLN In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the mome... BRIE LARSON Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band. MICK JAGGER There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most... HELEN MIRREN I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd lo... FLO RIDA If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who... JAY-Z You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some peopl... BETH ORTON The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship... BILLY RAY CYRUS I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr... BRUCE COCKBURN If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a ... TALIB KWELI When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a... OMARI HARDWICK I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the ... L'WREN SCOTT I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of s... SAMANTHA BEE If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. THEODORE ROOSEVELT If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes o... TRENT REZNOR Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about i... CHRISTOPH WALTZ I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music. SHIRLEY JONES Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designe... PHILIP TREACY I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward... SEAMUS HEANEY They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, a... EMILY ROBISON My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The C... KACY CATANZARO I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much ... ART ALEXAKIS Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome... JEFFREY BELL I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A... ALICIA KEYS I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosb... LEON BRIDGES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Ultimately, I think there's this umbrella term of jazz, and what's cool about not just what&... GRETCHEN PARLATO She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my li... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public pray... DAVID HERBERT DONALD In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitis... JOHN RIDLEY There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's ... BILLY JOE SAUNDERS I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just p... JANE ELLIOT I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make fr... TRACY K. SMITH I know a lot of Disney Channel stars. I hang out with Debbie Ryan. Me and Ryan Newman hang out a lot... BRADLEY STEVEN PERRY If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm wi... DOMINIC MONAGHAN Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this g... WATKIN TUDOR JONES Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed und... TAYLOR NEGRON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been ... TAYLOR HANSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki... RON FOURNIER If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of ... KANYE WEST On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi... ERIC DANE I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes ... MELANIE LYNSKEY
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[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] SAINT JEROME Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not ... JEROME WIESNER Prayer is a groan. ST. JEROME Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought ... JEROME BRUNER We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility o... JEROME BRUNER The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. SAINT JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. ST. JEROME I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull. JEROME DEAN You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. JEROME BRUNER Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. ST. JEROME The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ST. JEROME Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ... ST. JEROME Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ST. JEROME A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. ST. JEROME I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o... ST. JEROME If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the p... JEROME LAWRENCE A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychi... JEROME LAWRENCE I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f... ST. JEROME The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. JEROME HINES My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr... ST. JEROME We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the
educability of man-the perfectibility o... JEROME BRUNNER A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. JEROME BLATTNER What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? SAINT JEROME Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.] SAINT JEROME Haste is of the Devil. SAINT JEROME An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The... SAINT JEROME A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. SAINT JEROME It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. SAINT JEROME Never look a gift horse in the mouth. SAINT JEROME The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. SAINT JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. SAINT JEROME The scars of others should teach us caution. SAINT JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real. SAINT JEROME The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, th... SAINT JEROME No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. SAINT JEROME Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'W... SAINT JEROME A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. ST. JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real. ST. JEROME The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs. JEROME CADY That's a tough thing when you've got a team that's looking at you as a leader and you're a rookie. Y... JEROME BETTIS One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and h... JEROME BRUNER Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat... ST. JEROME The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are ... JEROME BRUNER Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years. JEROME HINES We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the ... JEROME FLYNN It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else. JEROME CADY I think it's a great opportunity for Keith. Again, another kid with a hard-work ethic and tenacious ... JEROME SOUERS What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way. ST. JEROME It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms: good singing is infinitely more than muc... JEROME HINES I look forward to the day when a Mongolian idiot, treated bio-chemically, becomes a successful genet... JEROME LEJEUNE I've never seen shy about eating. They don't call me 'The Bus' because I pass the plate. JEROME BETTIS It's official, like the referee whistle. JEROME BETTIS The Bus stops here. The last stop is here in Detroit. JEROME BETTIS I'm a champion. I think the Bus' last stop is here in Detroit. It's official, like the referee whist... JEROME BETTIS Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. JEROME BRUNER It's been an incredible ride. I came back to win a championship. Mission accomplished, and with that... 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JEROME HOLTZMAN In the previous game [against the Dodgers on Aug. 29], I let everything get to me -- I let the umpir... JEROME WILLIAMS Exactly. The ring is symbolic of each championship, so you get five diamonds because we have five ch... JEROME BETTIS Denver's been underrated all year and so have we, and that makes for a really great game. JEROME BETTIS This is a lull, not a recovery. In this sort of situation, a small bounce-back happens quite often. ... JEROME BOOTH Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco... JEROME BETTIS I played this game to win a championship. I?m a champion and I think the last stop is here, in Detro... JEROME BETTIS Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ST. JEROME I feel great, I feel fresh. And officially, I am back. JEROME BETTIS We don't have to be as good as we were last year, ... It doesn't matter if we're 15-1 again - if we'... 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JEROME Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ST. JEROME If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell... JEROME SINGER It's the same type of town that Pittsburgh is, Midwest, blue-collar. And we've had some wins recentl... JEROME BETTIS Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ST. JEROME Because of a lack of funding, officers trained in SWAT are also trained in canine and how to deal wi... JEROME JACKSON No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more inta... JEROME HINES The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipl... JEROME HINES I've heard pileated woodpeckers make that kind of sound; I've heard crows make that kind of sound in... JEROME JACKSON We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singi... JEROME HINES I don't like that he got a hit off me, ... I told him when I was at Fresno, 'Just keep pitching like... JEROME WILLIAMS There was no rhythm to our passing game early. We had some passes that weren't caught and we had som... JEROME SOUERS This seems to be a case of local officials who have blatantly abused their legal powers, and have no... JEROME COHEN I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side... JEROME FLYNN That is playing into the hands of New Zealand teams, if you run upright into the contact situations ... JEROME PAARWATER I was the youngest guy in the union. At 14! A pianist around there who became my mentor for a little... JEROME RICHARDSON Detroit, you were incredible. Pittsburgh, here we come. I played this game to win a championship. I'... JEROME BETTIS Hopes have been dashed. The market had taken off very quickly. This has cooled investors' sentiment. JEROME FORNERIS We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. JEROME ROBBINS I told you to sell it, not give it away. JEROME ROBBINS This feels great. It makes everything that I've ever had to go through worthwhile. I've always wishe... JEROME BETTIS It makes it all worthwhile. It makes everything we had to go through as a team and everything I had ... JEROME BETTIS It makes everything worthwhile that I've ever had to go through, everything I've done. You know, 13 ... JEROME BETTIS When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the ... JEROME HINES Every payoff is a payoff in the end. JEROME JENKINS This makes everything worthwhile. It makes everything we, as a team, had to go through and personall... JEROME BETTIS They look very promising: Shorter, accessible, they're geared to readers a little younger than the c... JEROME KRAMER