"Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind."

-- Thomas Dreier

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.”
“I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.”
“There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”
“We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.”
“I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.”
“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.71, Delacorte Press
“Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile. It was a life I didn't want to leave behind. It was a life I didn't want to forget I wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.”

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