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- And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel…
- How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to…
- I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not,…
- That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a…
- I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
- I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your…
- I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the…
- We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
- And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.…
- Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the…
- I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness…
- She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another,…
- Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
- And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that…
- And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something…
- When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
- I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent,…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
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- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen