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If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Hilary Mantel

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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself. Ian Mckellen

Life Gay You Man Yourself Secret Draw Attention Illegal Homosexuality

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything. Iman Shumpert

Words Cause Draw Pictures Like Anything Paint

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring. India de Beaufort

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on? J. K. Simmons

You Snake Draw Guy Because Just Play

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect. Jack Prelutsky

Own Imagination Everything Draw Out My Own Perfect Came Decided Then

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects. Jacob Epstein

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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me. Jacob Epstein

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Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! Jaime Hernandez

It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical. Jake Tapper

Myself Me Tough Too Way Draw Self-Critical

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course. James Fenton

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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box. James Gunn

Water Pet Solar Alien Single Every Solar System Everything Hundreds Draw Kid System Kind Would Had Obsessed Pictures House Box Different Race Create Planet Certain Planets Used

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from. James L. Brooks

History Fatherhood Draw Had Road Road Map Personal Map

I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity. James Lafferty

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I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom. James Mercer

They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw! Jamie Dornan

Pay Draw Television Sexy More Classy Always Lot Very

The more you draw, the better you get. Jamie Hewlett

You Better Draw More Get

I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love. Jandy Nelson

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience. Jason Bateman

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I want to create this pool of talent to draw from, and I hope that people get inspired to make more web series and bring them to me to help develop. Jay Ellis

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I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact. Jaylen Brown

Try Draw Contact Like Know Hit Getting

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. Jeff Goodell

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In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college. Jeff Kinney

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'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different. Jeff Lemire

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