My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach. - Dani Shapiro

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Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

Dani Shapiro

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

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I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

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It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

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Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything, Interpreting, Way, Wide, Window, Writing

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

Changes, Everything, Fingers, Moments, Things Change, Trying

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Everything, Genuine, Needs, Ongoing, Writing

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