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“I feel like most creative people are total freaks.”

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“I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.”

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Author:Dan Ariely

“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”

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Author:Lisa Randall

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.”

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Author:Tom Kelley

“Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people.”

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Author:John Landgraf

“I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.”

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Author:Chris Hardwick

“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening”

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Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.”

“Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.”

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Author:Theaster Gates

“All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.”

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Author:Alec Guinness

“Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.”

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Author:Pharrell Williams

“I enjoy collaborating with all of the directors I have worked with. I love collaborating with creative people on interesting projects.”

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Author:Lior Ron

“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.”

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Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.”

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Author:Robert Longo

“I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.”

“The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.”

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Author:Ivan Sutherland

“I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.”

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Author:Aaron Rose

“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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Author:Seth

“Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius”

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Author:Marshall Cook

“I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.”

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Author:Julia Roberts

“I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.”

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Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.”

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Author:John le Carre

“I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.”

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Author:Garry Marshall

“I know that it's common for creative people to feel like they're profoundly misunderstood but for the most part I don't feel like that. I think most of the time people read my work in the way I intend.”

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Author:Liza Johnson

“You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.”

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Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.”

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Author:Jim Gilmore

“Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.”

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Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.”

“Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.”

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Author:Theodore Levitt

“Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.”

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Author:Lee Clow

“Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.”

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Author:Marc Webb

“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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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!”

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Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”

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Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.”

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Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.”

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Author:Simon de Pury

“The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.”

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Author:Enrique Iglesias

“In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.”

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Author:Twyla Tharp

“Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.”

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Author:E. B. White

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