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		But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
	
	  Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin
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		What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.
	
	  James Wan James Wan
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		Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe.
	
	  Kenya Barris Kenya Barris
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		When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.
	
	  Jose Gonzalez Jose Gonzalez
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		Des moments libres. Toute vie bien réglée a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre.
	
	  Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar
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		I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.
	
	  Og Mandino Og Mandino
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		I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.'
	
	  Frankie Cosmos Frankie Cosmos
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		When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
	
	  C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis
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		What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.
	
	  Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer
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		I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.
	
	  Lois Greenfield Lois Greenfield
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		The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.
	
	  Emily Oster Emily Oster
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		In Birmingham, England, I had a match with Tyson Kidd, and Mick Foley was at ringside and delivered a socko to me at the end of the match. That was another one of those moments that, if you told me I would be in the ring with Mick Foley giving me a socko, I wouldn't believe you.
	
	  Jinder Mahal Jinder Mahal
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		Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...
	
	  J. G. Ballard J. G. Ballard
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		I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
	
	  Alice McDermott Alice McDermott
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		Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
	
	  Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf
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		Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.
	
	  Sarah MacLean Sarah MacLean
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		Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
	
	  Brandon Boyd
			
			
				Incubus Brandon Boyd
			
			
				Incubus
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		To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
	
	  Joel Edgerton Joel Edgerton