Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~Dennis Haysbert
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ~Al Gore
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Silence is not weakness and decency is not pride. ~Arthur Machen
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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