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To me, painting is not about color at all; I’m interested in the quality of light.

To love is to find meaning in the meaningless.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

成功不仅仅是你一生中完成了什么，还在于你激励他人去做什么。

当数据和人类直觉协同工作时，才能做出最佳决策。

"To be an actor is to be a perpetual student of life."