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Related It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're... DANNY DEVITO I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us... DAN GILROY I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling y... SACHIN TENDULKAR I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whet... HARRY STYLES I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top.... JASON MRAZ If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that'... BRUCE LIPTON Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfe... BEN QUAYLE I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' whi... STERLING K. BROWN I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I... REID SCOTT The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo... BILLY BRAGG Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for... JIM HARRISON We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be... SARAH ALEXANDER I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to b... EDDIE MARSAN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is t... ROBERT COLLIER I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b... JOHN BURNSIDE It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broa... BONNIE BEDELIA My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian i... SHERMAN ALEXIE Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surround... LEONA LEWIS I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely r... RONALD FRAME When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin... MIRANDA JULY Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-el... RAY NAGIN When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.... LINDA SUE PARK I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, w... AARON RODGERS I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an art... OLIVIA D'ABO I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be i... CURTIS JACKSON Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's... NATALIE GOLDBERG Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. 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DAMIEN HIRST I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality trai... MADONNA CICCONE I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decisi... MICHAEL PHELPS I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I ... Q-TIP You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at ... CAMERON DIAZ When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had mos... KIM YOUNG-HA I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and... J. R. MARTINEZ I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What... WHOOPI GOLDBERG It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, b... RACHEL BILSON It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks m... JAMES GLEICK The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That&... E. L. DOCTOROW I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It... GUY RITCHIE It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch wit... JAMES MATTIS If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this i... MARK DE MORI I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writ... DAVE MATTHEWS If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear ... GEORGE MCGOVERN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is i... HOZIER The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff ... CHRISTINA MILIAN At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wa... SACHIN TENDULKAR I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truth... NAVEEN ANDREWS Your consciousness is all there is. When you lose it, there is nothing there. Be conscious not subco... DEBASISH MRIDHA I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee... SCOTT PATTERSON I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're goi... SOPHIE TURNER I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia... ZOE KAZAN It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storyli... MATTHEW DAVIS I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear ... HARRIET WALTER You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo... IRIS APFEL I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prett... ZOOEY DESCHANEL Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a w... RAF SIMONS I always liked the idea in 'Potter' that you don't choose the wand, the wand chooses you... SCOTT DERRICKSON I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's... 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JOHN RATZENBERGER I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work befor... WARREN ELLIS I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ... IAN RANKIN I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have sel... TOM PETTY There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you'r... SALLY SCHNEIDER To free your mind from lies and deceit you have to open your mind to the possibilities of everything... GARY F EVANS... Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an act... WILLIAM HURT That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enj... TAYLOR DAYNE A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious an... 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JEROME Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau... ST. BERNARD Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ... ST. BERNARD A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re... ST. BASIL Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ST. EVERMOND He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ST. BASIL Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. ST. BERNARD It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is... ST. BERNARD When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. ST. JEROME A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l... ST. BASIL I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ST. 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AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws... ST. AUGUSTINE Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ... ST. AUGUSTINE God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin... ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ... ST. AUGUSTINE What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which... ST. AUGUSTINE Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ... ST. AUGUSTINE My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go... ST. 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Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a... BERNARD, ST. I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process, ST. AMBROSE Where Peter is, there must be the Church ST. AMBROSE There is no time of life past learning something. ST. AMBROSE Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. BERNARD ST. I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow. ST. VINCENT Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes... ST. ISADORE Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ST. JEROME Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? ST. AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ST. 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JEROME Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. ST. JEROME Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ST. JEROME Quick enough, if good enough. ST. JEROME Never look a gift horse in the mouth! ST. JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting ST. JEROME Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ST. JEROME Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ST. JEROME Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle. ST. BASIL The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels. BERNARD ST. God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ST. AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. ST. AUGUSTINE Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ST. AUGUSTINE And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. 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ATHANASIUS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of ... ST. ANSELM Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u... ST. ANSELM Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fea... ST. AMBROSE Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 It is a great mystery of divine love, that not ev... ST. AMBROSE Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa... ST. AMBROSE Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to s... ST. AMBROSE No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ST. AMBROSE Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the... ST. ALCUIN This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. ST AUGUSTINE Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T... ST. TERESA Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr... ST. JEROME Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ST. EVERMOND Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo... ST. CYPRIAN Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose... ST. CYPRIAN One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co... ST. VINCENT Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. ST. JEROME I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a... ST. VINCENT Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive... ST. BASIL Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. OLIVER ST. JOHN If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? OLIVER ST. JOHN And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time... LARA ST. JOHN Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to... LARA ST. JOHN Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics. LARA ST. JOHN I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e... LARA ST. JOHN