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" Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves. "
Maynard James Keenan
Think
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" I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear. "
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" For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. "
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" A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories. "
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" A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. "
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