"All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Inspiration Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Being a bad writer a thousand times first.”
“I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.”
“No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.”
“I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.”
“I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.”
“It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles...”

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“When youâ€™re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.”
“Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.”

Source : Robert Chester Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and the boy”, Henry Holt & Company

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