Minor White Quotes
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
Quotes to Explore
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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For that river of red could be the death of me.God, give me strength and keep reminding meThat blood is thicker than water.Oh, but love is thicker than blood.And if blood is thicker than water,Then what are we fighting for?We're all sons and daughtersOf something that means so much more.
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.
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Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.
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Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
