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Greatness doesn’t come from a single great idea or Eureka moment. It comes from painstakingly borrowing other people’s work and building on it. We steal our way to greatness.

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And within each of those goals is a daily practice… your daily practice. Whatever that looks like for you.

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Whatever the world decides to throw at you, make something out of it. Make art.

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Perhaps the best thing about inspiration is the deep feeling of focus and clarity you feel when you externalize your reasons for doing something and attribute your work to some source besides your own mind.

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Talent is an accident of genes – and a responsibility.

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The first time, I’d done it by accident. Now I wanted to intentionally create the viral effect.

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I find myself unable to focus for long periods of time. Instead of writing, I perseverate. My thoughts moving in all directions – front-to-back, right-to-left, back-to-front, left-to-right. I say, “If I only had more time.” Then when I have the time I tell myself, “I’ll do it later.”

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These people live in isolation on a farm of misery, growing intolerable crops as they squeeze haterade from their cows’ teats and mix marijuana into bales of hay so they can ride around on their high horses.

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Writing isn’t talking. I don’t even have to open my mouth for you to know exactly what I think.

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The lyrics would be from the heart, and he’d tell me the truth: that I am difficult to love but that he loves me anyway.