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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest. ↗

— John Winthrop

#cannot #end #good #honest #just

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much. Myself, I'm a very realistic person. I don't trust anything New Age -- or reincarnation, dreams, Tarot, horoscopes. I don't trust anything like that at all. I wake up at 6 in the morning and go to bed at 10, jogging every day and swimming, eating healthy food. I'm very realistic. But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird. When I want to write about the reality of society and the world, it gets weird. Many people ask me why, and I can't answer that. But I recognized when I was interviewing those 63 ordinary people -- they were very straightforward, very simple, very ordinary, but their stories were sometimes very weird. That was interesting. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #age

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#awake #else #everyone #you

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced. ↗

— John Peers

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You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#long-running #never #never say never #say #series

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#ideas #live #making #our #own

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler. ↗

— Sally Pearson

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Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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