"You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else."

-- Mirah

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“We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.”
“I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.”
“I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel most fully a person who's torn between attention and inattention, between loving and hating, between hyper-responsiveness and total dullness. Reading is not a comfortable experience for me.”

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“Prayer is continual abandonment to God.”
“The most important thing for me - and the thing I get frustrated about when I don't achieve it - is momentum. Sometimes you hit on it quite naturally and other times it's a mad struggle.”
“The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.”
“You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.”
“Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better”

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