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Creativity Quotes
"The ball and chain of creativity has no key."
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"Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse."
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"The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!"
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards."
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"A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'."
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"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
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"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
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"I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all."
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"Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'cool, that's something I want to do."
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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"I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing."
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"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one."
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"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
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"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency."
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"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels."
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"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
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"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
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"I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page."
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"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."
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"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."
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"Yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams."
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"I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity."
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"Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant."
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"The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition."
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"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
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"We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went."
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"Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life."
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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt."
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"This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market."
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"For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique."
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"Boredom is a kind reminder that we've shadowed our creativity."
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"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
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"Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity."
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"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
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"Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone."
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"Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed."
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"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
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"A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing."
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"Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time."
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"Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water."
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"You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out."
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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
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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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"In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story."
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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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