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Creativity Quotes
"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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"It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman."
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"We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards."
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"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
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"The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature."
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"I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come."
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"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me."
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"You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is."
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"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
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"My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea."
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"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
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"Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information."
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"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."
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"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant."
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"Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming."
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"Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management."
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"Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty."
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"Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing."
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"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
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"No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as councilsof ghosts. It is not "human genius"that makes us human, but an old love,an old intelligence of the heartwe gather to us from the world,from the creatures, from the angelsof inspiration, from the dead--an intelligence merely nonexistentto those who do not have it, but --to those who have it more dear than life."
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"I Taught myself how to Write lyrics ,compose ,sing ,arrange music ,mix and mastering my music and producing it and selling it worldwide , Promoting it Too and making my music videos as well . All because they wanted to abuse me when I first started."
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"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."
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"Luck and nature shapes our imagination."
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"I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful."
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"So what if you have stretch marks. So what if you have cellulite. So what if you don't have a big butt. So what if you don't have large breasts. So what if you don't have flawless skin. So what if you don't have a body that other people deem to be perfect. So what! Don't allow people to define YOUR beauty. Hold your head up high and know who YOU are! DO NOT EVER allow anybody to make you feel as if you're NOT enough. You ARE enough! BELIEVE that."
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"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."
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"Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians."
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"Don't jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire."
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"I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best."
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"Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others."
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"Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration."
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"We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way."
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"Well it's good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody'll say, 'why don't you come over for dinner?' and I can just say, 'Car won't make it.' I don't have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don't mean time to write POETRY. I mean time to lay in bed, alone, and stare up at the ceiling and not think at all, not at all, not at all."
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"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."
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"When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind."
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"Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's."
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"One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive."
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"Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame."
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"Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations."
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"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
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"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated."
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"You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper."
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"When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker."
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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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"The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing."
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"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice."
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"I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality."
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