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“There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.”

Ifs Want Should Believe Art Country Artist Order Asks I Believe Can Do Special Willing Notion Silly Persist You Can Do It Nutty

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.”

Artist Numbers Hip Hop Hips Hops Hip Hop Artist Retrograde

Author:Cornel West

“There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.”

Culture Horror Genocide Continuing Numbness

Author:Anne Waldman

“There's a one in six billion chance you'll find your soul mate. And that's if they're not dead. At best they're probably living in some Siberian ice cave eating bugs and weaving beads into their back hair. But they're out there. My dad believed that to find your perfect soul mate, first, you had to look through a bunch of other guys' soul mates.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Soul Guy Chance Perfect Hair Dad Six Eating My Dad Billions Bunch Ice Your Soul Mates Caves Bugs Other Guys Soul Mate Weaving Beads

Author:Christopher Titus

“There's a one in six billion chance you're gonna find your soul mate. But, maybe, your perfect soul mate is actually three or four half perfect people. How far are you willing to go to actually find that perfect somebody... ies. If you're not willing to make a group of people your soul mate then you'd better plan on being alone. You'll always have television.”

People Ifs Soul Three Chance Perfect Half Four Plans Groups Television Willing Six Billions Your Soul Mates Soul Mate

Author:Christopher Titus

“There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.”

Littles Forever Broken Crosses Towns Mad Graves Yellow Idols Hearted Marble Broken Hearted

Author:J. Milton Hayes

“There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.”

Feels Acting Audience Healthy Oneness

Author:Catherine Hicks

“There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This is a big, blockbuster comic book." You're prepared to be more fan service-y or bombastic. Yet I did one of the most challenging pages I've ever drawn, and it was incredibly satisfying to do that on a project like this [All-Star Batman].”

Thinking Book Bigs Stars Challenges Interesting Fans Projects Pages Prepared Comic Satisfying Comic Book Most Interesting Blockbuster All Stars Bombastic

Author:Declan Shalvey

“There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”

Boys Palaces

Author:Grant Morrison

“There's a paradox in every paradigm.”

Paradox Paradigm

Author:Ani DiFranco

“There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.”

Firsts Emotion Known Figures Discovery First Time Familiar Encounters Paradox Rereading Rediscovery

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.”

Thinking Way Inspirational Should Creativity Habit Skills Notion Paradox Routine Repetition Intrigue

Author:Twyla Tharp

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.”

Way Trying Mean Moments Effort Figures Enormous Parallels

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.”

Thinking Made Film Lucky Directors Profession Phrases Insulting Great Film Good Directors

Author:Colin Firth

“There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.”

Earth Christ Sinner Savior Pardon

Author:J. Vernon McGee

“There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.”

Persons Self Parent Dues Fake Upbringing Infancy

Author:Benjamin Clementine

“There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.”

Difficult Impulse

Author:Bill McKibben

“There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.”

Prejudice Peaceful Aggression Competitiveness Bohemia

Author:Peter Mullan

“There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.”

Want Humans Whole Spirituality Growth Human Beings Integrity Butterfly Living Things Frogs Chrysalis Tadpoles

Author:Ellen Bass

“There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.”

Want Superhero

Author:Alana de la Garza

“There's a part of me that is angry. Not in the sense of, "Gee, George is an angry guy!" I mean, anyone who's been with me five minutes, five years, whatever, they would tell you they've rarely seen me in a moment of anger. Yes, I can become highly irritated in a line that's moving slowly, or with a clerk who's incompetent. But I don't yell. I don't get rude. I am clear about what I expect. In a store, my mother always told me, "Ask for the manager immediately. It changes the tone of the conversation."”

Mean Moments Moving Mother Guy Rude Irritated Clerks

Author:George Carlin

“There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.”

People Littles Reason Facts Bits Minutes Little Bit Miserable Hopefully Really Happy Spotlight

Author:Amanda Palmer

“There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.”

Looks

Author:Andrew Sarris

“There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark”

Stills Hate Natural Dark Views Setting Settings Cynical Default

Author:Alexei Sayle

“There's a part of me that thinks I'm married to the audience, that I'm married to my job, and that this is where I devote 90% of my energy.”

Thinking Jobs Energy Audience Married

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Thinking Left Goes On

Author:Colum McCann

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.”

People Want Stills Ideas Able Success Known Comfortable Shopping Groceries Grocery Shopping

Author:Lusia Strus

“There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.”

Want Years Kind Running Next Bears Ocean Performances Down And Repeats Swim Next Year Streaks

Author:Barry Zito

“There's a part of me that wants to look nice and occasionally wants to be snappy, and the other part of me that just wants to wear the same sweater until I die. And I'm in constant conflict between those two sides.”

Want Looks Two Dies Sides Nice Conflict Constant Two Sides Sweaters

Author:Hugh Dancy

“There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.”

Believe Heart Pieces Angel True Love Always Believe True Life

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.”

School Wish Wonder Helpful

Author:Jenna Fischer

“There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.”

Has Beens Said Wish Subjects Poet Late Too Late Solitary Could Have Been Mileage

Author:Richard Thompson

“There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!”

People Care Running Action Faces Don't Care I Don't Care Murderer Action Movie

Author:Jenny Slate

“There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.”

Kids Edges Curious Charging

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely.”

Men Years Persons Care Wanted Lasts Given Forever Heard Let Me Take Care Sentences Sincerely Given Up

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.”

Thinking Years Book Body Kids Girl Sex Cities Fit Training Adults Decided Like Me Wheels Bullying Body Image Bigfoot Sex And The City Training Wheels

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“There's a part of me, and I'm sure every single musician that writes for themselves has this: there's a layer of precious that you have to shed. I'm constantly trying to let go of, "Well, what about this, this would be cool." Some of that is needed, but a lot of it is total BS.”

Writing Trying Letting Go Musician Shed Being Cool

Author:Sarah Jaffe

“There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.”

Suffering

Author:Isha Judd

“There's a part of us that looks at our iPhones instead of talking to people because we're shy or because we're a little uncomfortable, but there's also a part where everyone is working so fast and so hard that to actually listen, or to be thoughtful, or to do what you suggested, which is to take even a moment to say, "What can I do that would express care for somebody else?" that is a difficult thing for people to do because they're so overwhelmed with business.”

People Moments Care Difficult Uncomfortable Thoughtful Shy Overwhelmed

Author:Subir Chowdhury

“There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.”

Mind Soul Spirit Born Sin Emotion Your Soul Bother Wilderness Stubborn Born Again

Author:Joyce Meyer

“There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.”

Children Matter Remains Mature Sophisticated Weary Mature Love

Author:Barbra Streisand

“There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.”

Author:Wayne Dyer

“There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.”

School Class Particular High School Prison Distinction Hierarchy Navigate Clique Class Distinction

Author:Laura Prepon

“There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody. Wowww." You know what I mean? There's a weird, I don't know... It's called "poptimism."”

People Mean Song Singing Empty Brilliant Crush Pop Song

Author:Ed Droste

“There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.”

Knows Way Art Earth Perfect Saws Rocks Century Shapes Rivers Lays Wounds Description Dragons Passages Quarters Twisted Imitating Ios

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

“There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.”

People Heart Passion Names Calling Name Calling

Author:Daniel Craig

“There's a path from your HEART to mine.”

Heart Path Mines

Author:Rumi

“There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.”

Philosophy Stuff Path Enlightenment Enlightened Transient Negation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights movements, but there isn't even one yet about the women's movement? It's hard to capture because it's so sprawling, and it's an ideology.”

Thinking Way Hard Film Certain Rights Wonderful Movement Patterns Opening Civil Rights Ideology Capture Pathways Civil Rights Movement

Author:Marisa Tomei

“There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.”

Passion Addiction Patterns Jail Making Up Breaking Promises Passion For Music

Author:Nikki Sixx

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