The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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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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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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