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Molly Harper Author
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"A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you."

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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
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"The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him."

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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it."

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Ovid Poet
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"Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."

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