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• No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

  George Carlin

  Ideas, People, Laughing

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.

  Kate Cary

  Writing, Mind, Laziness

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Writing, Shout Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time and sometimes it's up and sometimes it down and sometimes it sideways with a hint of s smile.

  Eliza Doolittle

  People, Hints, Sometimes

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• In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Recovery, Sleep, Data

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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• Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.

  Gene LeBell

  Stuff, Practicals

  Source: writingfighting.wordpress.com

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• I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Team, Yoga, Hockey

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.

  Liam Tancock

  Focus, Training, Done

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.

  Liam Tancock

  Swimming, Years, Splits

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.

  William Katt

  Self Confidence, Hands, Feet

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• Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.

  William Katt

  Running, Thinking, Car

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• The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.

  Big Boi

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  "Big Boi Welcomes Us to the World of Luscious Left Foot". Interview with Dave Maher, pitchfork.com. August 4, 2008.

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• Music is how I get free. It's a way to shut the rest of the world down and create your own world within it. I'm not thinking about what's going on around me. It's definitely an energy thing, and I'm in a zone.

  Gift of Gab

  Thinking, Energy, World

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

  Tito Colliander

  Too Late, Asceticism, May

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• I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Meat, Soup

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• When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

  Aaron Zigman

  Writing, Thinking, Light

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• Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Mother, Writing, Realizing

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

  James, son of Zebedee

  Exercise, Wind, Challenges

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

  Paul Krugman

  Tools, Might, Painful

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Home, Writing

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.

  John Oates

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

  Thomas Davis

  Wind, Land, Waiting

  Thomas Osborne Davis (1920*). “Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry”

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• I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.

  Rachel Klein

  Struggle, Moments, Eyelids

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

  Brian Cox

  Rocks, Balls, Looks

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• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

  William Scranton

  Morning, Islands, Eight

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