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"It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight."
"The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this."
"As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter."
"Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect."
"This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art."
"Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear."
"When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right."
"I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself."
"I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak."
"If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated."
"In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as a child, which I have carried over to now. In this way I'm constantly dislocated."
"The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone."
"It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not."
"I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak"
"I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though."
"It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind."
"I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints."
"Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!"
"I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know."
"I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits."
