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“Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.”
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“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.”
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“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.”
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“Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.”
Source : "Rupert Murdoch: Will this prove to be the media king's last act?" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2017.
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“When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”
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“Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”
Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.”
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“I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.”