"What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original."

-- Austin Kleon

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“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.”
“Marlee [Matlin] is who she is and just happens to use an interpreter. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a helper. I'm just Jack, the interpreter guy.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.103, Pan Macmillan
“My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield”
“I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. It's really made the touring a lot less grueling.”
“The current CEO of Wal-Mart says he has "no choice" but to sacrifice the welfare of his employees in order to serve his customers' need for low prices. So, why are they paying the guy millions a year if there is no possibility for him to change things? I think he is either kidding us or himself. The truth is more likely that he likes things the way they are, or he lacks the strategic imagination to come up with a viable and profitable ways to change them. If either is true, he is overpaid and probably not up to doing the job.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.”

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