My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian 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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