Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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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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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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