I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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Recognise.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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