As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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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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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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