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Memory feeds imagination.: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.: Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.: Julia Sorel
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.: M. C. Richards
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