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• Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

  Mastin Kipp

  Memories, Common Threads, Together

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• To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Mean, Animal, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Common Threads, Focus

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Writing, Keys, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.

  Bonnie McKee

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

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• Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Passion, Genius

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.

  Aaron Brookner

  Artist, Dying Alone, Guy

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.

  Brooke Waggoner

  Past, Albums, Addresses

  Interview With Tam Sackman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly qualified that he or she would be hard to reject. The person must also be willing to be nominated even though leading Senate Republicans have said they will not consider anyone the president names.

  Steve Inskeep

  Names, President, Would Be

  "Supreme Court Nominating Process Shrouded In Secrecy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

  Richard Hell

  Book, Moments, Theme

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

  Will Arnett

  Play, Common Threads, People

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Common Threads, Mind, Young

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

  James Hillman

  Character, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

  Charlie Clouser

  Dark, Evil, Design

  "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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• I loved the book [The Adderall Diaries] I optioned it, I think some years ago. But there's a lot of different threads in the book. It starts off as one thing, where he's trying to cover this murder trial, and then his own life starts to impinge on that, so it becomes something else. I found that fascinating.

  James Franco

  Book, Thinking, Years

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you.

  Elan Lee

  Book, Shine On, Tv Shows

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• Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Common Threads, Light, Hip Hop

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Past, Law

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

  Neal Stephenson

  Machines, Littles, Needles

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

  Edwin Arnold

  Charity, Deeds, Crystals

  Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.352, e-artnow

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• By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

  George Herbert

  Past, Needles, Draws

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• Like warp and woof all destinies
  Are woven fast,
  Linked in sympathy like the keys
  Of an organ vast.
  Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
  Break but one
  Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
  Through all will run.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Running, Destiny, Keys

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

  Homer

  Grief, Blessing, Two

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• Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Fabric Of Life, Design

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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