"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.”
“To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.”
“If you want to be an artist, you have to know that art is an ongoing practice, that you're part of a long line. Take this test: if someone offered you a billion dollars, but you could never draw another illustration or write another word, would you take it? If you reject it, you need to find another way to pay the bills, but you're still an artist.”
“The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.”
“Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.”
“Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Jun 28, 2013
“A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.”
“As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.”

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