"The imagination is man's power over nature."
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"Have patience, and endure"
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"Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius."
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"The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
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"The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object."
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"My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto."
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"All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur."
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"What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative"
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"Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem."
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"I want to do something creative, not just easy."
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"We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid."
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"A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time."
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"My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again."
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"Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship."
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"The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative."
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"Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want."
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"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."
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"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
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"I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business."
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