"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism."

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Source : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure", www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

Will Self

#Creative Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Approval Quotes

“When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.”
“She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Mammoth Hunters (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Three”, p.53, Bantam
“You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.”
“I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.”
“Las Vegas does have its fair share of males in the business. But the male sex trade is often more underground. There are escort services that specify in gay prostitution, although it may not be advertised for the public, but if you are a male calling for a male, or female calling for a female, you will get what you ask for as long as the money is right.”
“Put positive energy out into the world. If everybody did that, we would be in harmony.”
“Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.”
“Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.”

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