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“If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.”
“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening to the compositions of others in an effort to contribute to the who...”
“It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, m...”
“We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.”
“I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.”
“Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.”
“My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.”
“It's hard to force creativity and humor.”
“I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.”
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a const...”
“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”
“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.”
“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research center...”
“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés...”
