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“Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.”
Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
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“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
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“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”
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“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”
Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.
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“I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.”
Source : "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Ashley Parker Angel, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.
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“I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.”
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“You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?”
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“Talent is not sexually transmitted.”
Source : "10 Wrestling Couples That Prove Talent Can't Be Sexually Transmitted", whatculture.com. June 20, 2015.
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“I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.”
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“What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.”
