He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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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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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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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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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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