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• Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Achievement, Waiting

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• This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

  Omar Khayyam

  Strong, Stars, Heart

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

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• Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, Rooms

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• The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.

  Guy Ritchie

  Beautiful, Fishing, Shooting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Delicacy, Dirt

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• If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

  Rafael Nadal

  Beach, Ice, Ifs

  "US Open day two quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. August 30, 2006.

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• But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Live Life, Creativity

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• The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

  Pericles

  Reality, Men, Stories

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• What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Baby, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3594, Manonmani Publishers

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• To get wealth and security by guile
  Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Water, Wealth, Pot

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.

  Marat Safin

  Grass, Hard

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

  Laozi

  Moving, Space, House

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• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  Rachel Cusk

  Book, Artist, Justice

  "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

  John Millington Synge

  Strong, Roots, Timber

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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• The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

  Martin Luther

  Sex, Science, Should Have

  Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

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• God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Love You, Creating

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

  Laozi

  Lying, Space, Advantage

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• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

  Jean Anouilh

  Lying, Hero, Race

  Jean Anouilh (1951). “Legend of lovers”

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  Karl Rove

  Views, Justice, Empathy

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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• The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Hero, Childhood, Known

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.113, Vanderbilt University Press

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• Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

  Tom Selleck

  Mind, Target, Shooting

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• My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

  Margaret Walker

  Strong, Memories, Grandmother

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative.

  Lucas Samaras

  Art, Using People, Leader

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