"Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong."

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Source : Douglas Pagels (2004). “Words That Shine Like Stars: How to Have the Life You've Always Wanted: Advice from Celebrities and Wonderful Others”

Douglas Pagels

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“Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
“When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. Iâ€™ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and canâ€™t be sold on its merits. Iâ€™d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, Iâ€™m the kid who couldnâ€™t play competitive games. Iâ€™d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.”
“This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible”
“When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling...”
“A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.”
“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.”

Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.”

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