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• Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.

  Earl Nightingale

  Dream, Eye, Successful

  Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

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• It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Fall, Way, Brilliant

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• Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the same time, it is exciting. So it is both difficult and easy. What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. I have said in the kind of exaggerated manner of writers and prophets that writing, for me, is like receiving a term of imprisonment-you know that's what you're in for, for whatever time it takes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Wrestling, Difficult And Easy

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• Yet when the hour of decision arrives, it turns out that many conservatives care as little as ever about administrative skill and executive accomplishment. Our party and our movement overwhelmingly respond to symbolic cues. Sarah Palin is exciting and appealing. But what kind of executive is she? None of us have even the remotest idea.

  David Frum

  Party, Skills, Ideas

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• If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

  Matt Kemp

  League, Trout, Want

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• In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.

  Nick Blaemire

  People, Challenges, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.

  John Mulaney

  Past, Play, Long

  "Best comedy 2013: John Mulaney interview". Interview with Matthew Love, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Well, I'd say that I'm mostly drawn to people who are genuine and willing to take a step to the unknown. So when I play with these people, usually there's this sense of that 'yes, we are doing it together right at this moment without any agenda' feeling which is so exciting! It means that there is this sense of trust, that whatever I throw in the music that's happening, they will make it work and send something to work with in my direction. Hopefully they feel the same about me.

  Okkyung Lee

  Mean, Play, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.

  Erol Alkan

  Genre, Fallen, Knows

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.

  Moby

  New York, Successful, People

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

  Nicki Chapman

  Jobs, Moving, Waiting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Musician, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

  Mark Hoppus

  Writing, Mean, Who I Am

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Crazy, America, Pakistan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day of school, you're like, "I don't care. I will wear sweats. Am I done yet?"

  Meaghan Martin

  School, New Shoes, Sweat

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.

  Elaine Stritch

  Too Much, Way, Committed

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Play, People, Complacency

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.

  Damian Barr

  Memories, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because I had never stopped thinking about them on some level. Those bits I was just channelling and those were the most exciting writing days. The bits I found harder were the bits that happen in between, you know, the rest of living. There were whole years, whole houses, that I just got rid of.

  Damian Barr

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in a reflection of the times, is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Hats off to all these people who have done such incredible creative work and still do every week.

  Michael Uslan

  Character, Reflection, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The cool thing about Watchmen is it has this really complicated question that it asks, which is: who polices the police or who governs the government? Who does God pray to? Those are pretty deep questions but also pretty fun questions. Kind of exciting. It tries to subvert the superhero genre by giving you these big questions, moral questions. Why do you think you're on a fun ride? Suddenly you're like how am I supposed to feel about that?

  Zack Snyder

  Fun, Thinking, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Night, Games, Names

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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