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“I will not be doing any FHM or crazy Maxim magazines. I will leave that to the other actresses in Hollywood who want to shed their clothes because they think that's beneficial to them. I would much rather chose a creative way - like in a movie.”

Thinking Way Want Creative Crazy Clothes Hollywood Actresses Magazines Shed Maxims Beneficial

Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.”

People Self Opinion Creative Too Much Careful Rely Self Respect Sanity Be Careful Creative Freedom

Author:Luke Evans

“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”

Opportunity Creative Halloween

Author:Judy Gold

“I admire people who are creative.”

People Creative Admire

Author:Luise Rainer

“I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.”

Want Feels Acting Roles Creative Inspired Be Creative

Author:Ellen Wong

“There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Certain Song Liberty Creative Long Time Sacred Lists

Author:Keith Urban

“I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.”

Process Creative Creative Process Stardom

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.”

Doe Real Eye Film Fun Term Acting Creative Directors Theater Sheer Absolutely Nothing Adrenaline Creative Freedom Film Acting

Author:Mara Wilson

“I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.”

People Thinking Kind Hard Creative Endeavor Surround Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With People

Author:Oscar Isaac

“I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.”

People Thinking Feels Eye Creative Fields Thirds Constant Watchers Third Eye

Author:Oscar Isaac

“I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.”

People Thinking Way Want Art Kids Grows Creative Growing Up Inspire Boxes Our Future Thinker Be Creative Innovators Art And Music

Author:Angela Kinsey

“No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.”

Courses Process Space Creative Mines Creative Process

Author:Michael Jackson

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

Children Imagination Creativity Creative Adults Advertising Adulthood Survived Be Creative Creativeness Grown Children

Book:No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

“The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.”

People Remember Creative Needed Periods Brave 80s

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.”

Firsts Whole Process Creative Theater Actresses Expected Creative Process

Author:Annie Parisse

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

People Feels Creative Freak Creative People

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.”

“I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.”

“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.”

“Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.”

Artist Creative Drawing Nervous

Book:Art and the Spirit of Man

Source: Art and the Spirit of Man

“The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.”

Thinking Needs Use Process Creative Creation Technique Negotiation Exploits

Book:The Art and Science of Negotiation

Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation

“The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.”

Shows Spiritual Form Artist Individual Growth Creative Progress Expression Complexes Complexity Spiritual Growth Inner Life

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.”

Littles Hands Seems Creativity Creative Creation Destruction

Author:Babs Deal

“the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.”

Mind Creativity Creative Metals Balanced Compass Needles Trembling Creative Mind

Author:Grace S. Richmond

“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”

Ifs Men Made Sometimes Artist Known Vision Creative Clear He Man Wall Tools Selfish Creative Work Withdrawal Seclusion

Author:Georgiana Burne-Jones

“there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.”

Mind Body Earth Spirit Creative Crime Generous Yield Idleness Trinity Stagnation Mind Body Mind Body And Spirit

Author:Eleanor Dark

“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.”

“John Huston is more of a creative director than most.”

Creative Directors

Author:Robert Loggia

“Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.”

People Way Stills I Can Play Passion Creative Imagine Theater Meetings Toes Better Ways Great People

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts”

Feels Kind Natural Race Creative Competition Instinct

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.”

People Made Sometimes Film Faces Creative Heard Genius Miraculous Creative Genius

Author:Roger Ebert

“I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.”

Wanted Creative Being Real Awkward Personal Life Creative Life Socially Awkward Social Awkwardness

Author:Alicia Witt

“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.”

People Has Beens Bigs Watches Creative Focus Lucky Creative People Mediation

Author:Russell Simmons

“Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.”

Believe Ends Happens Creative Keys Elements Compromise Constraints

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“Theres a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.”

Children Creative Hunger Fascinating

Author:Madhuri Dixit

“The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops”

Energy Creative Bus Ambiguous Bus Stops

Author:Teju Cole

“Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Ends Facts Motivational Lying Goal Term Creative Achieve Ultimate Deeds Treasure Rescue

Author:Francisco Leon

“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.”

Mind Kind Persons Different Artist Lines Ability Brain Creativity Creative Design Mark Faults Thinker Different Kinds Storyteller Inventor Holistic Get Ahead

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”

“Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

World Needs Nations Creative Extremism Extremist Religious Extremism Civil Right Movement Political Extremism Islamic Extremists

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.”

Humans Would Be Human Beings Company Roles Economy Creative Capacity Concerned Dignity Creator Productivity Circles Metamorphosis Market Economy Full Circle

Author:Joseph Beuys

“All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.”

Ifs World Littles Self Artist Certain Community Creative Madness Mad Myth Respectful Eccentric Admiring Generalities

Author:Angela Carter

“I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.”

Ifs Needs Writing I Can Literature Imagination Creative Majors Creative Writing Workshops Writing Workshop

Author:Vikas Swarup

“The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.”

Children Littles Play Imagination Principles Fantasy Creative Serious Birth Treats Accounts Debt Characteristics Inconsistent Creative Work Memories Dreams Reflections Short Sighted Serious Work

Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.”

Thinking Want Should Kind May Made Creative Return Investment Financial Pursue Financial Investment

Author:Meg Cabot

“I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.”

Knows Men Believe Heart Art Dream Action Spirit I Believe Creative All Things Humble Makers Fragrance Stature God Is Love Just A Dream God And Love

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.”

Creative Century Possibility Cameras Fantastic Pens 21st Century Creative Life

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.”

Ideas Waiting Lines Creative Influence Everyday Things In Life Mundane Calming Everyday Things Waiting In Line

Author:Gail Tsukiyama

“I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.”

Feels Writing Views Creative Nice Feet New York Bed Window Tables Coffee Couches Skylines

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.”

Humans Creative Connections Connecting Collecting Dots

Book:The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Source: The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

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