Quotes about "Inspiration & Motivation"

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. ”

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. ”

I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday to Greece, fairly gorging myself on lamb souvlaki before taking the plunge into a meatless existence. ”

I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to eat in a break. ”

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them. ”

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance. ”

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes. ”

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head. ”

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality. ”

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. ”