When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience.… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
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Poetry is protesting against the nature of suffering and mistreatment. Art is the expression of binding your soul and universe together in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
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The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
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