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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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