May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish 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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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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