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To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in… — Michael Loceff
I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been… — William Stafford
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction… — Sean William Scott
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium;… — Stewart Brand
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of… — Philip Guston
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. — Daniel H. Pink
Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in… — Kyle Cooper
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions. — Andrew Strauss
I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work… — Cornelia Parker
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal… — Jean Helion
As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack… — Robert Genn
While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art… — Robert Genn
Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor. — David Letterman
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? — St. Jerome
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn… — Frederick Lenz
No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations. — Frederick Lenz
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes… — Frederick Lenz
Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners. — Amy Dickinson
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions,… — Mike Harding

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