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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

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I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing. ↗

— Peter Banks

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Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment. ↗

— Robert Plant

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In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for. ↗

— Alice Barrett

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He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man. ↗

— James Beattie

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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back. ↗

— Beck

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Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. ↗

— William Frederick Book

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