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"Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief."
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"People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it."
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"Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP"
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"Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back."
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"Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous."
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"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies"
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"All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds."
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"Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell."
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"To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."
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"To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world."
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"There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us."
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
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"There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way."
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"You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life."
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"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
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"The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars."
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"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."
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"I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment."
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"The road to the heart is the ear"
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