Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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