Inspiration Quotes
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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
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The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
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A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.
