"But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

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“You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north to support her music education. You know, so she had to sing. She had to make a living 'cause she was supporting her family. So poverty and race put her in this place which, you know, created enormous success, but it's not what her psyche was all about.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1993). “A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
“My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.”
“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.”
“Don't confuse having a career with having a life.”
“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.”
“I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.”
“Man created God in his own image.”

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