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During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. ↗

— George Edmund Street

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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

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I want to discover more things about acting. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. ↗

— Gerard Way

#rebirth #self-discovery #life

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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