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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
| Maude Adams, Actress (1872) |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet (1836) |
| Mose Allison, Musician (1927) |
| Gordon W. Allport, Psychologist (1897) |
| Daisy Bates, Activist (1914) |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author (1929) |
| Daniel J. Evans, Politician (1925) |
| Calista Flockhart, Actress (1964) |
| David Hackworth, Soldier (1930) |
| Lee Haney, Athlete (1959) |
| Andre Bazin, Critic (1958) |
| Alexander Calder, Sculptor (1976) |
| Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1855) |


