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Alec Baldwin Actor
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"I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked."

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Tanith Lee Author
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"Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad."

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"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."

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George Sand Novelist, Memoirist
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"Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing."

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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
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"There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible."

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Kiki Smith Artist
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"It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time."

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