"I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable."
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"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them."
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"I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me."
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"I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it."
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"I was always sort of ahead of myself in some way, shape or form and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being of being free and having a creative agency, so to speak."
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"I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer."
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"The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos."
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"Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out."
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"Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them."
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"While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed."
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"I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods."
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"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."
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"We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians."
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"Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment."
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"We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?"
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"They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea."
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"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
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"It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field."
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"Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork."
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"There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it."
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