Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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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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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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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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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic 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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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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