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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Apartment Because Casually Cost
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Believe Art Full Life
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Diary Way Keep Paint
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Talk Form Structure Cheap
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Blind Feel Man Painter
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

Keep Last Think Anyone
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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

Travel World Product Paid
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.

Star Run Want Kind
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.

Being Done Fun Giving
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

Although Being Demand Think
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Acquire Afraid Face Failure
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Enthusiasm Everything Guitar Like
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Always Being Communication Could
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

About Art Because Better
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

About Both Empirical Everything
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Star Mirror Truth Inside
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Common Spiritual Empowering Ignore
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Poem Dignity Learn Race
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Strength Down Way Exerting
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Merit Universal Human Reward
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Class Right People Ultimate
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Want Get Success Happiness
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Arriving Course Departing Journey
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Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Any Away Does Longer
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Being Come Composer Effort
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Most Create Act Ever
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.

Forever Suffocate Breath Holding
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Might Destiny Life Think
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Melody Nerves Triggers Body
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Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.

Trust Working Writing Come
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Ear Life Loved Much
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“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”

Efforts Nobody Achieve Appreciates
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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Growing Learning Life Mistake
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Science Higher Been Source
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck Opportunity Preparation Matter
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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

Lives Society Indefinate Future
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“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”

Accepting Outgrowth Part Life
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“Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.”

Alternative Overlook Practice Talents
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