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Quote by William Christopher Handy

“Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.”

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William Christopher Handy, known as the 'King of the Blues', was an American composer. Born on November 16, 1873, and died on March 28, 1958. Handy is renowned for his blues music compositions, with 'St. Louis Blues' being his most iconic work. more

“If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.”

Ifs Powerful Healing Brain Effects Type Opposites Therapy Treatment Working It Chemicals Facilitate Placebo Placebo Effect

Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.”

Men Want Helping Black Community Mankind Proud Black Community

Author:Common

“When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.”

People Giving Feels I Can Can Do Vision Give Me Connected Fees I Can Do It

Author:Common

“If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.”

Ifs Years Kind Two Book Different Artist Three Issues Comic If I Could Comic Book Continuity Crank

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.”

People Want Book Issues Bookstores

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.”

Effort Too Much Drawing Commit Abandoned

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.”

Littles Rooms

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.”

Thinking Important Ends Hard Risk Hard Work Persistence The End Of The Day Willingness Stubbornness

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.”

World Want Years Done Stuff Morning Bed Boring Drawing Planning Comic Shooting Every Morning Editing Hitchcock Boring Things

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that."”

Thinking Knows Needs I Can Character Stories Can Do Seeing Mets Scripts Wow Interpreter

Author:Mark Strong

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