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Stephen King Author

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"I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'"

Writing House Creating

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian

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"Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing."

People Together Creating

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

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"The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art."

Art Dream Creating

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

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"It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic."

Fighting Creating Anger

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Shel Silverstein Poet, Songwriter, Author

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"I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty."

Style Work Creating

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Laozi Philosopher

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"Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue."

Spiritual Wisdom Creating

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Oscar Isaac Actor

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"When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances."

Character Creating Playing Someone

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher

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"Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature."

Powerful Nature Creating

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Geoff Davis Actor

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"The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work."

Jobs Creating Red

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation."

Suffering Creating Transformation

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument."

Want Creativity Creating

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Jim Lee Comic Book Artist

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"Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents."

Creative Creating Happy Accidents

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Jose Saramago Writer

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"In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers."

Writing Creating Block

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

Men Humor Creating

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author

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"Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth."

Mean Creating Mad

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author

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"Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness."

Issues Unique Creating

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Barack Obama Politician

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"Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race."

Jobs Space Creating

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Barack Obama Politician

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"My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government."

Government Creating Broken Promises

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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author

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"Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration."

Strong Creating Historical

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Emma Stone Actress

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"I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting."

Thinking Creating Yoga

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