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Creativity Quotes
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
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"I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research."
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"What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations."
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"We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins."
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"We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure."
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"All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected by them and create masterpieces at the most unpredictable situations, just like a lotus flower blossoming in a muddy pond!"
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"Creativity is magic in the making."
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"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
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"Imagination is the core of attraction."
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"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."
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"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king."
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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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"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
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"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
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"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."
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"SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net."
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"It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state."
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"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."
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"I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc."
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"There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves."
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"I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever."
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"Ideas any one can mould as he wishes."
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"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems."
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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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"Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession."
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"I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means."
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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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"The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form."
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"The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account."
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"Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television."
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
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"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
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"I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking."
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"I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder."
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"From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me."
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"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."
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"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."
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"It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans."
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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
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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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"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."
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"It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice."
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"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
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"I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters."
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"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together."
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