"Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?"
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"I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy."
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"Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it."
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"If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have."
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"As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best."
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"That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence."
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"Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor."
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"[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time."
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"A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people."
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"It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new."
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"The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!"
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"If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what it's always been about. Unless you're a trust-funder or you somehow score a great part-time job or you work for another artist, you're going to go where you can afford to live."
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"I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking."
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"You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure."
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"There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace."
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"I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage."
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"I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system."
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"Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way."
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"I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women."
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"Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements."
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