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• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

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• There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

  Robert Anthony

  Anxiety, Lines, Enthusiasm

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.149, Morgan James Publishing

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• The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

  Gary Johnson

  Liberty, Pieces, Movement

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• I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Doubt, Moments, Slough

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

  Zell Miller

  Thrill, Littles, Remember

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• You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

  Patty Hearst

  Hunting, Thrill, Deer

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• I'm young, and I'm fortunate to be in good health, although I do get tired. Sometimes my wife refers to me as Mr. Excitement because of the number of naps it takes to keep this going.

  Russ Feingold

  Tired, Naps, Numbers

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Tools, Firsts, Walks

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Yeah. On top of all the comedy promo stuff, we had the added excitement of being constantly shot at.

  2D

  Stuff, Comedy, Yeah

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• This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

  Samuel Alito

  School, College, Law

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Entrepreneur, Energy, Gumption

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic changes for projects. But by the same token, manga can't be drawn by a lot of people, as done in film.

  Katsuhiro Otomo

  People, Done, Unexpected

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Passion, Space, Matter

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• Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Passion, Comfort, Impossible

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

  William Goldman

  Mother, Father, Tired

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Battle, Stronger

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, My Best Friend, Mixtures

  "Wrestling with Diane Arbus" by Germaine Greer, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Men, Animal

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• A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Mean, Creating, Longing

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

  Wes Anderson

  Play, Done, Film

  "Wes Anderson, Creating A Singular 'Kingdom'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, ripr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

  Hillary Scott

  Christmas, Innocence, Spirit

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• As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flirting, Games, Increase

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• The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

  Walter Chrysler

  Motivational, Real, Men

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• The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Block, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.189, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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