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Creativity Quotes
"The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism."
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"I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it."
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"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
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"Sometimes writing is like playing with fire. like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast."
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"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
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"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."
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"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
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"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."
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"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."
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"In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have."
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"In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public."
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"Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution."
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"We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene."
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"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
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"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief."
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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."
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"With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new."
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"And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous."
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"It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite."
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"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
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"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."
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"I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that."
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"I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor."
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"When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement."
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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
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"Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again."
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"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue."
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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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"Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it."
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"Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is."
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"My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions."
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"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."
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"The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book."
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"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."
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"Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace."
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"A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities."
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"Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities."
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"Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary."
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"We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins."
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"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."
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"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
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"If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more."
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