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• Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Expression

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

  Matt Mullenweg

  World, Want, Online

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• I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer.

  Mindy Kaling

  Real, Thinking, Tools

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.

  Hoodie Allen

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Kids, Different

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist than fantasy. I believe in the fantasies within each of our realities, i.e., I portray very relatable human issues in a very realistic tone, yet in a magical setting.

  Shahad Ameen

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Shahad Ameen – ‘Eye & Mermaid’". Interview with Kelcie Mattson, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2014.

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• We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

  Cameron Diaz

  Betrayal, Gone, Kind

  "Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talk THE OTHER WOMAN, Their Chemistry on Set, the Rating, and More". collider.com. April 22, 2014.

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• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Lying, Years

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Sadness, Thinking

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• Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

  David Levithan

  Love, Real, Games

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• The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

  Patrick Star

  Mind, Enigma, Spongebob Squarepants

  FaceBook post by Patrick Star from Jul 28, 2011

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• The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Thinking, Long, Humanity

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Rome, Cities

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter what kind of music you like or what kind of person you are or what you're used to listening to, or whether you know me or not. It doesn't matter, either way you can be inspired by it [my songs]. Each way I want to make it relatable to that group, but most of all keep the inspirational part of it, for sure."

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Listening, Groups

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• To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Fear

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• I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dedication, Idols, Professional Competence

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

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• If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Goal, Might, Strategy

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• Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Adventure, Mind, Doe

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• Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Determined, Enough, Please

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  Taylor Swift

  Simple, Thinking, Musical

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• I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Might, Shows, Products

  "When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?" by Robert Scoble, scobleizer.blog. May 23, 2010.

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• If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

  Jennifer Lee

  Character, Film, Scope

  "Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee interview: on making Frozen". Interview with Mark Harrison, www.denofgeek.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

  Jack Dorsey

  Satisfaction, Timeless, Term

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