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• I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.

  Marie Calloway

  Beautiful, Home, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Thinking, America

  "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

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• I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

  Lee Child

  Book, Needs, World

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• Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

  Seth Klarman

  Assessment, Alternatives, Might

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• I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe

  David Sedaris

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2014.

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• 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

  Anna Kendrick

  Movie, Thinking, Trying

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• As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

  Andrew Garfield

  Opportunity, Thinking, Lucky

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

  Sara Blakely

  Husband, Moving, Ideas

  "How to launch a dream business while working full time, by the women who did it" by Sejal Kapadia Pocha, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

  Alex Kingston

  Pain, Thinking, Degrees

  "I've never been an ingenue" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2008.

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• I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

  Maud Adams

  Insecure, Thinking, People

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• When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Artist, Goal

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• I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

  Minka Kelly

  Thinking, Attractive Things, Guy

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

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• This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

  Henry Selick

  Sweet, Hard Work, Artist

  "Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.

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• Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Writing, Finishing

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

  Matthew Lillard

  Glasses, Years, People

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."

  Jordan Peele

  Needs, Boundaries, Break

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that's the theme behind most of the posters - "I'm not outside for your entertainment" and "I'm not seeking your validation."

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Space, Feelings

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Media, People, Living My Life

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• Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Successful, Common Sense, Kind

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• If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

  Jesse Harris

  Song, Nice, Able

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• The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Needs, Looks

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Waiting, Feelings, Looks

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.74, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.

  Simon Pegg

  Laughter, Kids, School

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.

  Lana Del Rey

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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