Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists... view

By: Colin R. Davis

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But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary... view

By: Deborah Bull

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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory... view

By: Chaim Potok

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So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week... view

By: Michael Beschloss

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Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form... view

By: Shelley Berman

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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are... view

By: Bernadette Peters

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Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't... view

By: Richard Bach

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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me... view

By: Evan Hunter

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But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do... view

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve... view

By: Max Planck

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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens... view

By: Coretta Scott King

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Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards... view

By: Jane Bryant Quinn

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