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Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first 'Star Wars' band.
— Olly Alexander
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
— Mark Cuban
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
— James Franco
I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
— Flume
I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.
— Chord Overstreet
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
— Thomas Edison
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
— Thomas Merton
There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.
— Greg Sestero
I don't hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it's in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don't have the ability to make that noise.
— Keith Flint
I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But every time I read nonfiction, I learn things.
— Chris Claremont