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Inspirational Quotes
"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."
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"Just write about what bites you and damn the rest."
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"One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left."
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"It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything."
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
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"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book."
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
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"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."
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"You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved."
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"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."
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"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
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"Insomnia is my greatest inspiration."
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"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
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"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"
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"If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get."
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"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
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"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm."
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"Solo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano."
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"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."
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"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."
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"Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure."
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"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom."
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"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
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"Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth."
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"Don't let your problems push you. Let your dreams lead you! The lens you choose to view the world determines how you feel about yourself and everything around you. Optimism attracts goodness into our lives and gives us strength to overcome obstacles. You can't live a positive life with a negative attitude. Heaven on earth is not a place we must find, it is a choice we must make. Let every day be a love you can feel. Let every day be a dream you can touch. Let every day be a reason to live. Life is too short to be anything but positive!"
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"Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope."
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"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
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"Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration."
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"One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate."
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"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
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"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."
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"In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning."
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"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
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"If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments."
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"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."
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"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."
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"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
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"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."
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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
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"The gift of life, gives you the greatest opportunity to live and chance to rise above any situation. With hopeful attitude you can overcome any struggle."
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
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"Inspiration comes from all different places."
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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
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"I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows."
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"Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
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"Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later."
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"This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail."
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"Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests."
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