Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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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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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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