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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Creative

“I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too wet' or 'The first couple chapters are good, but then the rest of the pages were so wet that they were completely illegible' or 'Did you dip this in Sprite? This smells like Sprite. Why would you dip your novel in Sprite?' And instead of pushing back, I'd listen. That's an incredibly important skill for a young writer to have.”

Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Courageous

“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.”

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
Philosophical

“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.”

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
Love

“You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.”

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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
Creative

“I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.”

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Rene Marie Singer
Creative

“I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.”

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“There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.”

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Sean Parker Entrepreneur
Grateful

“Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.”

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SebastiAn Music Producer, DJ
Determined

“Oh, and one more thing: If I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people who never even try.”

Rich Franklin Mixed Martial Artist
Angry

“For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began”

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Rich Mullins Musician
Creative

“I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.”

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Confident

“I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.”

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Confident

“I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.”

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Happy

“All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like...10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31.”

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Confident

“I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone on the women's tour to beat me.”

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