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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.


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OLIVER BURKEMAN Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
STEPHEN KING Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
HARVEY MACKAY I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.
EDWARD RUSCHA I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tu...
RAIN Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at t...
IGOR STRAVINSKY Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at...
IGOR STRAVINSKY There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can f...
NATALIE MASSENET In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
LARRY NIVEN Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration,...
ELLA FITZGERALD I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, whe...
ANNA SUI I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.
CARMEN KASS When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t...
ALBERTO MORAVIA If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don'...
MARK ZUPAN When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I...
COCO LEE I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've...
PAUL WALKER I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot ...
HARMONY KORINE Toys are the greatest inspiration for me. People never really grow up. They just get bigger adult bo...
DOUG TAYLOR I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
KEVIN GATES I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with we...
JOHN LYDON I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how li...
RANDY SCHEKMAN Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand...
BRIAN CELIO I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expect...
NEIL DIAMOND I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
RANBIR KAPOOR The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...
CHUCK CLOSE I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel...
KAT GRAHAM I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy ...
ERIC BROWN I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
VIDAL SASSOON I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.
CELINE DION Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red c...
DITA VON TEESE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
PABLO PICASSO I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while ...
JAMES ROLLINS I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
DOMINIC MONAGHAN I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!
EVE HEWSON I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human wo...
GARY HUME I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.
BRENDAN FRASER I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that peop...
WINNIE HARLOW Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right mom...
BOB ZUPPKE I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no po...
DRIES VAN NOTEN People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk...
GARY LARSON I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn...
DIANA GABALDON I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationsh...
SABRINA CARPENTER The inspiration for the whole body of work is routed in my philosophy of the after life.
COLIN NESBIT You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with th...
KARA WALKER Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. ...
BJORN ULVAEUS Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man...
ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for so...
KAILASH KHER I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get en...
MANOJ BHARGAVA I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status...
GEORGE DZUNDZA My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kind...
JULIA LONDON I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
TAYLOR SCHILLING As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wron...
DAVID GREGORY New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make the...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
WILLIAM HURT I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin...
DIANA GALBADON What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 m...
TED CRUZ This is an inspiration to me. It will motivate me to continue the work I've been doing for so long. ...
MARY SMITH Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and ...
TRAVIS FIMMEL One of the greatest dangers for us creators is that we are impatiently waiting for inspiration to st...
CHRIS ERZFELD I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY (My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, ...
GWEN STEFANI Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and ...
EILEEN CADDY I never really want to leave it as an inspiration; I just can't get enough of it.
DAMON ALBARN I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don&#...
M. F. HUSAIN I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to ...
PAULINE GEDGE I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.
AUBREY DE GREY My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do...
ED O'NEILL She was an inspiration for this team. We all saw how hard she worked to get back, her determination....
LONNIE BARTLEY Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack o...
BRAD GORESKI I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research a...
RICK PERLSTEIN I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting ins...
TARON EGERTON Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and ...
EILEEN CADDY I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
LALU PRASAD YADAV I still work weekends because I like it; I enjoy it. I just don't care.
EDGARDO OSORIO Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I fol...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous ...
ALAIN PROST I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don'...
DAVID BLUNKETT My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don'...
OLGA KURYLENKO I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not lia...
CHUCK CLOSE For people who believe that they can't do it, I hope I'm an inspiration to others to get out...
SIMONE MANUEL I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's w...
KATE DEL CASTILLO I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is s...
SONAKSHI SINHA It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that ...
STEVE WOZNIAK I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
PATRICIA ARQUETTE It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians wh...
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CHUCK CLOSE I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
CHUCK CLOSE Europe often seems sort of overly concerned with the weight of history and stuff. We don't have much...
CHUCK CLOSE I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, a...
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CHUCK CLOSE The city continues to be a magnet for the best and the brightest that come here from all over the co...
CHUCK CLOSE Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another pe...
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CHUCK CLOSE At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you k...
CHUCK CLOSE I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magi...
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CHUCK CLOSE I tried to, with a series of self-imposed limitations, back myself into my own personal corner where...
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CHUCK CLOSE Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
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CHUCK EDDY Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
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CHUCK D Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
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CHUCK MANGIONE You decide your own level of involvement.
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CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th...
CHUCK DALY Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX Playing safe is only playing.
CHUCK OLSON Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
CHUCK HILLIS