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“Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced”

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Donna Karan, born on October 2, 1948, is a renowned fashion designer known for her minimalist and elegant design style, one of the leading figures in the modern fashion industry. more

“Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.”

Trying Consciousness Accepting Waste Illusion Weakness Overcoming Aim Raises Cease Limitation Imperfection Wasting Time Wholeness Completeness Aim High Wallowing

Author:Eileen Caddy

“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”

Mind Memories Direct Arise Intercourse

Author:Oliver Sacks

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”

Men Feels May Language Failing Easier Drink Happenings Ugly Foolish Our Thoughts English Language

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.”

Writing Humans Looks Lines Fiction Clear Respect Lifetime Thick Thread Persist Abiding Writing Fiction

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.”

Life Is Culture Actors Term Acting Study Ready Bigger Be You Anything In Life

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.”

Way Problem Pain Faces Best Way Crush Happy Smile

Author:Will Smith

“You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.”

Ifs Writing Lucky Posterity Lucky You

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.”

Way Universe Discovery Curious

Author:Isaac Asimov

“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”

World Way Believe Reason Literature Belief Healing Greater This Life Mortality Throat Righteous Power Of Love Always Alone Righteous Anger

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

Men Should Humans Serious Regard Theatre Serious Business

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

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