"There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better."

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"There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better."

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"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Nothing,

"I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much."

Alan Ladd, American Actor

Nothing, Want

"Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it."

Carrie Donovan, American Editor

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"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."

Oliver Holmes, Jr., American Judge

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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."

Elizabeth Wurtzel, American Writer

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"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."

George Orwell, British Author

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"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."

John Cheever, American Writer

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"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."

Margaret Drabble, English Novelist

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"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."

Vincente Minnelli, American Director

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"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped."

Blood, Company, Name, Numbers

"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."

Authorship, College, Gravity, Punishment

"In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects."

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"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders."

Experience, Decision, Fame, Regret

"I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses."

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"If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack."

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"Trust the tale, not the teller."

Trust,

"I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity."

Time, Contemplation, Familiarity, Magic

"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."

Selling,

"Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations."

Car, Content, Fancy, Now