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"You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see." -Austin Kleon

“I procrastinate worse than anybody.” Writing is so hard. “I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.”

-Dave Eggers

“Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you’re called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can’t ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn’t written anything for a year.”

-Dave Eggers

"You are more authentic the more you resemble what you’ve dreamed of being."

-Pedro Almodovar

"Always come back to work that excites you. Even if you get off track for a while. Do personal work on a regular basis, show it to others. You can reinvent yourself at any time."

-Keri Smith

“I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.”

-Mary Karr

"Don't eat anything that doesn't rot."

-Michael Pollan

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