There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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