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August Wilson
August Wilson Playwright, Screenwriter

"I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that."

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"Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input."

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Merlin Mann Writer
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"Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available."

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Dan Brown Author
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"The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly."

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Biz Stone Entrepreneur
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"There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing."

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