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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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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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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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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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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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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