"You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back."

-- Doug Peacock

#Writing Quotes #Thinking About You Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.”
“Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.”
“People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward”
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
“I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really â€¦ I was alive.”

Source : "Damon Lindelof on Why 'Breaking Bad's' Finale Let Him Say Goodbye to 'Lost' (Guest Column)" by Damon Lindelof, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 2, 2013.
“With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.”
“I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!”
“I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.”

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