"I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating"

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

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“I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility...”
“Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.”

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“I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.”
“Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.”

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“When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.”
“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

Source : Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”
“I like to protect my players, but I don't like to make excuses. (But) I think anybody that's seen our guys knows that was way too quick (of) a turnaround. And, in all fairness to them, I just wish they could have had some more time. But, they didn't.”
“You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.”

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