"Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you."
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"People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom."
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"People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park."
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"Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat."
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"It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, "Wow, I would be a complete mess," and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through."
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"The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures."
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"People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings."
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"People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them."
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"She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own."
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"The truth has a way of changing people's plans."
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"You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected."
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"It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead."
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"Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it."
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"I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!"
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration."
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
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"Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
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"These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God."
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"It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off."
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"People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work."
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