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"I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones."

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Oliver Parker Film Director
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"Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?"

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"Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?” “In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up."

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Andrew Weil Author
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"Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men."

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