Marilyn Butler famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
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The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.
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I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
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What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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