I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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Related You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to... RAY BRADBURY I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don... JOYCE DIDONATO Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to l... RICHARD BACH Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made... DOMINIC COOPER When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, y... T. BOONE PICKENS When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don'... FREDDIE HIGHMORE I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think... JIDENNA But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't wo... MARCUS SAMUELSSON I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full can... ERIC MABIUS On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t... RICKIE FOWLER When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them you... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. An... STEFON DIGGS I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha... GABBY DOUGLAS If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave t... JOSE MUJICA When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to ... BLAKE SHELTON You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th... VANESSA WILLIAMS If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J... CYNTHIA NIXON I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences ... LEWIS THOMAS And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What wi... BETTY FORD I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than ... JAMIE JOHNSON Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you... KATRINA KAIF I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defea... DARRELL ROYAL Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel ... ZAKK WYLDE The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own... VALERIE CRUZ If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a... ANNE SWEENEY The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have v... JACK MA When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down... MARINA ABROMOVIC I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediat... PADMA LAKSHMI If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse. ALEXI ZENTNER When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess. DAVID MACKENZIE Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't... ROBERT SCOBLE When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your pa... WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU I learned that you don't take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them fi... BILL ENGVALL Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the ... LADY GAGA You can't really fake chemistry: either you have it or you don't, and you can't have a r... STERLING K. BROWN I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d... AVIVA Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. ALAN FURST The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't... COLIN QUINN Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have? ANTHONY T. HINCKS Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it. PATRICK CHAN Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say... MAGNUS SCHEVING We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th... MANDY MOORE You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER You don't need a record company to turn you into anything. PRINCE If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past... DAVID RAKOFF My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks i... YOLANDA ADAMS If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell... ERNST FISCHER Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I... KACEY MUSGRAVES WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack wh... TOM BRADY Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people... WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... CAROL BURNETT You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. I... PHIL KNIGHT When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just ... DAVID MITCHELL Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't... CARINE ROITFELD I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days late... MICHAEL OWEN I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certai... EDDIE HUANG You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that th... KATHRYN MINSHEW The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th... JAY-Z You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. ALICE WALKER My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, '... ZENDAYA People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any mor... CHADWICK BOSEMAN I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a... KIESZA A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be lear... AARON HUEY You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ... JOHNNY CASH You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That'... GEORGE TENET As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, y... SIMONE BILES I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I... LYNN REDGRAVE When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav... STEVEN ADLER People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W... J. J. WATT I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You'... JOSH HOMME Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess... BARRY HANNAH My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, becaus... SHAKIRA When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the ligh... ROBBIE WILLIAMS When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. MARC WEBB Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often somethin... PATTI SMITH Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if y... SARA BLAKELY I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the ... SI ROBERTSON You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'... IAN MCKELLEN If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help y... BILL HASLAM I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the ... MADONNA CICCONE You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don'... HARRY BROWNE I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleadi... TIM HUELSKAMP You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up y... DIERKS BENTLEY Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h... LEBRON JAMES I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to... CHRIS ROCK When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one ... CHINUA ACHEBE You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of s... ANDRE WARD
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