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- I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're…
- You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of…
- The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much…
- You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
- You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and…
- Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
- Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.…
- A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
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