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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
Doris Lessing
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.


Emily Dickinson
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You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
Diana Krall
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Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
Enya
Tags: Music Change You
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I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.


Pauline Collins
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If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.
Jim Ratcliffe
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
Edie Sedgwick
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
Lauren Willig
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It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
Betty White
Tags: Humor You Life
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Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.


Robyn Davidson
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Seamus Heaney
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
Simone de Beauvoir
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
Charlotte Bronte
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.


S. J. Rozan
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The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.
Rory Kinnear
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.


Pearl Bailey
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I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.


Alfred Molina
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Writing that's not working for a living.


Robert Asprin
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If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.


Charles Stross
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Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.


Linda Evans
Tags: You About Out