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Creativity Quotes
"It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state."
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"I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever."
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"I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself."
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"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."
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"I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination."
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"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
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"One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!"
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"Creation means that something new is created - which automatically replaces the old. You don't have to think about what you want to change; instead, think about what you want to create."
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"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
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"I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend."
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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
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"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today."
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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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"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
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"When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea."
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"I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?"
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"Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating."
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"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."
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"I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective."
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"Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write."
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"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do."
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"According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure imagining to what other people generally liked - she meant reality, of course."
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"Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus-zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above-easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it."
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"In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root."
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"Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times."
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"One can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account."
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"Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation."
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"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."
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"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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"The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest."
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"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
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"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."
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"I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher."
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"The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive."
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"Don't let writers block push you around. Figure out what the problem is,whether it's with the ms or it's in your personal life, and face it head on. Don't stop writing. Just try really hard to work through it."
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"She slid on the helmet. "Thanks, Prince Charming." "Huh?" "You know, Cinderella," she said. "The prince had her slipper and you had my helmet..."
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"I'm building a castle of soundtracks. So that one day I'll tell the ones I care for, I fought for my rights to dream and making them come true."
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"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
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"We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not."
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"Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural."
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"We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas."
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"I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately."
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"Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes."
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"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated."
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"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
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"In another place was a vast array of idols-Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy."
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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
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"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."
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"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
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