"The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me."

-- Amy Hempel

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“You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.”
“I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.”
“There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.”
“As an actor, you learn, every time you work.”
“I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.”
“I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.”
“Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.”
“The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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