"As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint."

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Joan Aiken

#Sweet Quotes #Writing Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.”
“Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.”
“I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up.”

Source : "Mädchen Amick Talks WITCHES OF EAST END, How Much Fun It Is to Play the Troublemaker, Working with the Great Cast, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2013.
“My face is not that expressive!”
“[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.”
“Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.”
“I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always”
“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”

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