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David Byrne

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

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Amber Hurdle

"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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Amber Hurdle

"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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Amber Hurdle

"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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Amber Hurdle

"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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Amber Hurdle

"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."
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"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
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"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."
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