Abbi Glines Quotes

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.

I've lost a lot in life because of my nature.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

People have called me 'lesbian' for growing my hair.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.