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• You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.

  Tom Waits

  Blue, Feelings, Lost

  Song: Little Trip to Heaven, Album: Closing Time, 2006

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• There's no night without stars.

  Andre Norton

  Gratitude, Night

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• Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dream, Gratitude, Adversity

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus”, p.323

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Grateful, Clouds

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• Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Gratitude, Lucky, Scar

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• "To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Dog, Fashion, Gratitude

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• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspiring, Men, Air

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• Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Science, May, Helping

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• Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Play, Kfc

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• In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Moon, Fire

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

  Kanye West

  Song, Light, Looks

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

  Francisco Largo Caballero

  Common Sense, Sun, Ifs

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• In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Roots, Effort

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.220, A&C Black

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• We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by the culture. And what's more treacherous than when the rewards of child stardom issue from the abuse?
  Child stars are performers above all else. Whenever their triumps, they are going to make sure we see everyone of their scars. That's the final price of admission.

  Margo Jefferson

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

  Julian Casablancas

  Dream, Grateful, Rocks

  "Great white hopes" by Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2001.

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• For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Dream, Believe, Love Is

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• The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling.

  Nat Fleischer

  Wrestling, College, Men

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• The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

  Michael Reagan

  Children, Odds, President

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• Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

  Pliny the Elder

  Flower, Food, Air

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• I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

  Esther Williams

  Running, New York, Feet

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• I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

  Esther Williams

  Women, Thinking, People

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• It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streamsThrough it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.

  Johannes Gutenberg

  Spring, Ignorance, Men

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• No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

  Yvonne Rainer

  Believe, Moving, Magic

  Yvonne Rainer (1999). “A Woman Who--: Essays, Interviews, Scripts”, p.16, JHU Press

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• The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

  Cid Corman

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Cid Corman (1975). “The Gist of Origin, 1951-1971: an anthology”

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Men, July

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