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I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

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• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • High
  • Running
  • Practice

• So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Failure
  • Sister
  • Talking

• Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • God
  • Mind

• Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Self

• What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Warrior

• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Secret
  • Curiosity
  • Intellectual

• Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Lost
  • Instructions

• Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Success
  • Inside
  • Wondered

• I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hated
  • Wondered