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I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist. ↗

— Donny Osmond

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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. ↗

— Joy Page

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You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself. ↗

— Joy Page

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Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over! ↗

— Jane Pauley

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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

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