"Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others."

-- Robert Genn

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“With a good melody... music gets me through everything.”

Source : "Mr. Karaoke". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.
“Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.”
“Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.”

Source : "Patrick J. Adams Talks SUITS, Joining the Show, Challenging Scenes, Improv on Set and Fan Expectations for the Rest of Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.
“Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.”
“Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.”
“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”
“The difficult thing with quotes on the internet is verifying them”
“The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.52, GENERAL PRESS

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