"I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jessa Crispin

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“Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.”
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”
“So many things make me come alive, like when I just finish meditating and I open my eyes and it's as if everything is much clearer. I feel like everything in my body has calmed down, and I feel this sense of joy because I am in touch with what's most important in my life. I also come most alive when I am with my family and closest friends who make me feel recharged just by being with them.”
“All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.”
“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

Source : "Exclusive: Joseph Morgan Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and IMMORTALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.
“It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.”

Source : Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.102, Diversion Books
“Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.”
“Supplements are very important, especially a multiple vitamin. The American Medical Association now says we should take one. And fish oil because it has omega 3 fatty acids and they have been found to lower depression, dementia, ADD, and people who kill themselves. So fish oil supplements; I have been taking them for years, I actually scanned my brain before and after and it's better.”

Source : "Kevorkian suggests guidelines for suicides", www.cnn.com. January 14, 1997.

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