"First and foremost, I just want to give a huge thanks to the fans who have been behind me."

-- Paul George

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“My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.”
“To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone”

Source : Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin
“I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems are not weird or new by any stretch but they feel strange and new because the atmosphere is one in which no one does that. People always talk about, and with good reason, poetry's unpopularity. When people say that they forget or they brush aside the fact that in the middle part of the last century poetry was immensely popular. Dylan Thomas was basically a rock star; so was Anne Sexton.”
“I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.”

Source : "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.
“When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.”
“As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.”
“Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.”

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