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Creativity Quotes
"I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity."
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"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
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"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot."
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"There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools."
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"Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you."
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"Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact."
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"The awareness in the moment serves you the most when you are about to create your imagination into a reality."
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"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal."
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"Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own."
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"How does one say something new and not retell?"
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"Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in."
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"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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"The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown."
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"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered."
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"The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel."
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"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create."
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"Write from the heart always."
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"There are those who speak and those who dream."
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"Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart."
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"The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create."
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"The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery."
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"My ideas fuck like rabbits."
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"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
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"Wealth flows from energy and ideas."
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"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
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"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea."
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"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."
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"The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products."
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"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming."
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"From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it."
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"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
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"The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd."
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"Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany."
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"I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece."
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"The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster."
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"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."
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"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
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"The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'"
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"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."
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"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."
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"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
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"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless."
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"She adored fairy tales,yet derived great rewardrewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul.Her fairytales weren't made of desperate girlsbeing rescued by handsomespoiled princes.Her stories were made of badass womenteasing monstersand running wild with dragons."
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"I improvise therefore I exist!"
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"Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation."
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