Inspired Quotes - Page 15

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Morning, New York, Book

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• There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

  Paul Pearsall

  Acceptance, Mystery, Closure

  Paul Pearsall (2007). “AWE: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion”, p.27, Health Communications, Inc.

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• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  David Nail

  Song, Jobs, People

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• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  Nate Berkus

  Couple, Cozy, Classic

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• Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

  Johann Lamont

  Country, Fighting, Overwhelming Desire

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• For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.

  Erik Johansson

  Photography, Ideas, Goal

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• Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Life Changing, Opportunity, College

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• I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Ideas, Feels

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• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  Fabian Perez

  Father, Character, Gambling

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• I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

  Brad Delson

  Band, Mates, Ingenuity

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.

  Alethea Kontis

  Heaven, Legends, Royal

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• There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

  Bruce Feiler

  Stories, Narrative, Reason

  "God and Dad: A Father’s Four Lessons of Faith" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nature, Greatness, Way

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.6, University of Arkansas Press

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• The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

  Jacques Barzun

  Battle, Genius, Creation

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Song, Real

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• I'm always being inspired .

  Boy George

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• To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

  Anwar Sadat

  Love Is, Community, Individuality

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• I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.

  Paul Brunton

  Teacher, Real, Heart

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• The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Expression

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

  Ned Rorem

  Inspiration, Greatness, Causes

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• To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Knows, Related, This Day

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.164, Northwestern University Press

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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Boston, Berries

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

  Steven Morrissey

  Voice, Would Be, Wake Up

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• I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Creative, Want, Chance

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

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