James Russell Lowell Quotes
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
Quotes to Explore
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.
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We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity. You should wear whatever seems true to you. If that means wearing a tux, if that means wearing a short dress, a floor-length dress, or whatever the case is - do what feels right to you. Try not to get in trouble though!
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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The definition of the composition of air ensues from this program of research : atmospheric air is not an element, that is, a simple body, but a mixture of several gases. Approximately a quarter of atmospheric air is composed by dephologisticated.
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I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
