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• I’m so secluded. Very alone.

  Yves Saint Laurent

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• I’m very claustrophobic.

  Brittany Snow

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• I’m very monogamous.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio – I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can’t tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.

  John Legend

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  A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

  Edgar Degas

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• If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

  Woodrow Wilson

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• Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

  Tom Stoppard

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• Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

  Nikki Giovanni

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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

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• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

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• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

  Henry Moore

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• Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.

  Jean Anouilh

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• If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Duer Miller

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• But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

  Alan Wilson Watts

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  It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar

  John Green

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• I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

  Francois Marie Arouet

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• Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

  George Bernard Shaw

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• And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

  Alan Wilson Watts

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