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Cheryl Strayed

"A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too."

-- Cheryl Strayed

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“I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.”
“Value our lives because we never know what day or what time itll be over, ... Rich, famous, whatever, it just makes you appreciate just seeing today.”

Source : "Aaliyah: A 'beautiful person's' life cut short", www.cnn.com. August 27, 2001.
“The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.”
“When Brad [Pitt] responded [to Allied], suddenly what was impossible became possible, which was great. But along the way, whenever I told the story, it had an affect on people. At its core, this was an effective story.”
“Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.”
“Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
“Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.”
“We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.”

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