"I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working."
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"Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us."
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"Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?"
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"Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you."
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"Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!"
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"Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood"
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"We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife."
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"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
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"And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion"
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"Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'."
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"Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work."
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"It costs a lot to build bad products"
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"Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact."
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"Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain."
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"Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer."
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"When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration."
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"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
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"My dads music was a great inspiration to me."
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"There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?"
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"As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race."
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