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"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."
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"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."
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"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
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"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
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"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."
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"When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band."
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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role."
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"Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week."
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"I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?"
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"I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not."
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"DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear."MORPHEUS: "And I am far more terrible than you, sister."
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"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope."
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"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."
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"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
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"Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."
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"We owe it to each other to tell stories."
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"The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision."
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