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D. J. MacHale

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SOURCE UNKNOWN To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
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ANDREW TO Do what you love and the money will follow.
MARSHA SINETAR Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
RUMI You are what you love. Not what loves you.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN You need spirit, fire, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
MARTY RUBIN You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
MARTY RUBIN You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
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ABRAHAM POLONSKY But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
AGATHA CHRISTIE You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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JEFFREY FRY I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
this place
And to you
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M.F. MOONZAJER When you find what you love you should redefine how you live!
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J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou...
J. D. VANCE Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere...
J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio...
J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev...
J. D. VANCE I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo...
J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. SALINGER Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac...
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