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“Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.”

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Author:Joan D. Vinge

“Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.”

Ifs Want Actors Taken Careful Be Careful Soap Springboards

Author:Michelle Ryan

“The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.”

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Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“I don't see the script as just a springboard for my interpretation. You do your best to serve the vision writers have - not by removing yourself from the equation, but by trying to filter what they intended through your artistry.”

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Author:Joe Mantello

“I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.”

May Use Results Creative Influence Creating Theme Celtic Springboards

Author:Loreena McKennitt

“I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."”

Writing Years Said Shows My Own Walks Comedy Scene Ten Conversation England London Performing Cheer Auditions Jimmy Chatting Comedy Shows Springboards

Author:Shelley Long

“Expectation is the springboard of achievement.”

Achievement Expectations Springboards

Author:Ngaio Marsh

“To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.”

People Peril Funny People Springboards

Author:Paul Feig

“I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect -- perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.”

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Author:J. Allen Hynek

“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”

Giving Kind May Given Sleep Liberty Cry Tears Glory Inspired Greek Paris Idle Fury Mislead August Frivolous Be Inspired Pavement Athenians Springboards

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.”

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Author:Michael Scott

“Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.”

Inspirational Humans Funny Water Knowing Human Nature Built Aspect Incredibles Boat Sail Sailing Coming Back Thrilling Springboards

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.”

Creativity Knowing Springboards

Author:Charlie Rose

“My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...”

Ifs Novel Taken Havens Scripts Springboards

Author:John Hurt

“Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.”

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Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“And then, what I hope will happen at the end is that there will be a big enough springboard that, if we chose to go for a second season, we would have one. But, there will be none of those maddening teases that we're going to tell you the answers and then we don't tell you the answers. That gave NBC the idea of making it a mini-series.”

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Author:Remi Aubuchon

“Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it.”

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Author:Sherri Saum

“[Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.”

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Author:John Hurt

“Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.”

Return Rosie Springboards

Author:John Carlos

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

Order Fighting Laughing Truth Is Breaths Depth Everyday Dare Surface Swimming Pool Abyss Swimming Pool Springboards

Author:Franz Kafka

“Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.”

People Way Wells Looks Kind Ideas Use Religion Courses Christianity Fit All Kinds Fancy Remarkable Preaching Rockets Springboards

Author:Alistair Begg

“Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be delighted to be your springboard, but try to read as much as you can in order to branch out!”

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Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.”

Development Limits Achievement Excellence Accomplish Personal Development Ongoing Great Achievement Non Stop Springboards Personal Achievement Personal Excellence

Author:Brian Tracy

“...try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today's disappointment could be tomorrow's springboard to all that you've ever wanted. In fact, it probably is.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.”

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Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.”

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Author:Yasser Arafat

“In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.”

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Author:Janet Leigh

“Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?”

“A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.”

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Author:Jane McGonigal

“Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.”

Littles Energy Imagination Wealth Too Much Creation Succeed Wealth Creation Little Money Springboards

Author:Brian Tracy

“A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.”

Ifs Needs Feels Littles Pain Life Is Easy Bits Interesting Struggle Alive Little Bit Overcoming Obstacles Supposed To Be Denial Zombie Future Life Springboards

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.”

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Author:Albert Finney

“There are no roadblocks, only springboards.”

Roadblock Springboards

Author:Brent Smith

“Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where it doesn’t belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense.”

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Author:John de Ruiter

“Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.”

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Book:Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You

Source: Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You

“The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.”

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Author:Miranda Richardson

“Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.”

World Book Reading Opening New World Opening Up Equalizer Springboards

Author:Mary Pope Osborne

“The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.”

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Author:Robert Plant

“Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.”

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Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.”

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Author:Milton Avery

“Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.”

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Author:Charles Edison

“Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.”

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