"They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.”

Source : Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”
“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.”
“I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.”

Source : "Interview: 'Rango' Director Gore Verbinski". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.slashfilm.com. March 4, 2011.
“The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.”
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take another year off. It is not about just working and then writing for a year. That is not how it is structured. It is about doing very conscious goal-driven activities for four years and then taking a year off in complete surrender to discover facets of myself that I don't know exist and exploring interests with no commercial value associated with them at all.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.”

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