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A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.