Inspiration Quotes
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People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
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I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
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A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.
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A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.
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I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.
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I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.
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You can't give if your cup of inspiration isn't full.
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I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
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Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
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I started in 1921 to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on the popular promenade Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.
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There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.
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It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
