"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”
“I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.”
“A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.”
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”
“I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?”
“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.”
“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”
“When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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