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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Brenda Ueland

… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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Artist Materialistic Want
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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Diaries Honest Writing
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them.
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Artist Peace People
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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Grows Ideas Listening
Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee.
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Coffee Skulls Thinking
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power.
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Horse Jobs Morning
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Esteem Self Trying
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
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Self Speak Thinking
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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Better Person Way Writing
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Express Human Talent
Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.
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Helping Imagination Others People
… when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. … Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.
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Race Thinking Two
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months.
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Fun People Writing
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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Sometimes Thinking Two

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