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Take your work seriously, but never yourself. - Margot Fonteyn

Take your work seriously, but never yourself. – Margot Fonteyn

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. – Margot Fonteyn

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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Take the time to come home to yourself every day. – Robin Casarjean

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Self

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Self

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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. – William Dement

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I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done – she has a bunch too so were tattoo buddies now. – Josh Hutcherson

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The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

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Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didnt see the point – although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasnt devoted to it. – Tom Welling

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