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• Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Decision, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Apologizing, Easier

  Grace Murray Hopper, Chantal Mompoullan (1984*). “Voice of America Interviews with Eight American Women of Achievement”

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• Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Fate, Long

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Rip, Play

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Powerful, Real

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

  Peter Hessler

  Regulation, Truth Is, Easier

  Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.19, Canongate Books

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• Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

  Mark Hart

  Giving, Saint, Ruins

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• Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Kids, Giving, Able

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• Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Running, War

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

  Rob Payne

  People, Authority, Platitudes

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Giving

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• It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers
  never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given
  commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

  Brad Templeton

  Command Not, Law, People

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• I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, People, United States

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.

  Stephen King

  Writing, College, Ideas

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Perfect, Remember, Sometimes

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• When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

  Mark Webber

  Being Yourself, Real, People

  Source: collider.com

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• All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

  Arthur W. Page

  Approval

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• My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

  Jung Chang

  Mother, Father, Party

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• Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

  Nina Turner

  Government, Needs, Care

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• Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Leaving, Tables

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• In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.

  Nick Frost

  Weekend, Paris, Space

  "Fictional character: Mike Watt". "Spaced", www.imdb.com. 1999–2001.

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• Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

  Mark Twain

  Renaissance, Republic

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.240, Velvet Element Books

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• Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love Is, Soul, Feelings

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

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• We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Giving, Fool, Failing

  Sheldon B. Kopp (1985). “Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life”, Tarcher

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