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“When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.”
Source : Chungliang Al Huang (2011). “Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji”, p.103, Singing Dragon
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“I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.”
Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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“Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.”
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“A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.”
Source : "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.
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“The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.”
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“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”
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“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”
Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
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“We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line... so I want to help them achieve that.”
Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.