“It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.” IfsPersonsImportantActorsStuffCreativeInvolvingCreative Person Author:Ajay Naidu
“I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.” PeopleCountryWantedMovingFoundStuffCreativeWifeMovedMy WifeTexasCreative People Author:Scoot McNairy
“Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.” PeopleInspirationalMadeMatterStuffAbilityMistakeCreativeProjectsExcellenceStriveBusyInsignificantToo BusyMisfitsFrivolityStriving For Excellence Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!” IfsWaySeemsPainFunStuffAttitudeLaughingCreativeFiguresRight NowLaughterTasksEndurePainfulBoringLifestyleDullMidstOverwhelmingGiggleMake You Smile Book:The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg Source: The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg
“I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.” MadeDesireStuffMorningCreativeGet UpMaking MoneyEvery MorningCreative WorkSexual Desire Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.” ThinkingNeedsLooksDifferentYoungChoicesStuffCreativeEnvironmentStyleHealthyWeakMinoritiesDifferent Styles Author:Peter Gabriel
“John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.” KnowsMatterActorsStuffKnow HowCreativeIncrediblesNo FearVesselCensure Author:Patti LuPone
“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.” MadeMotivationalSchoolNightStuffTalkingSunCreativeGroupsMiddleBuildingInvolvedPeriodsRoseListsI RealizedTricksClosestBe CreativeConnectingMiddle SchoolPicklesClosest Friends Author:Tony Hsieh
“You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.” ThinkingNeedsDoeMightHappensStuffRealizingDealsAcceptingCreativeFocusWonderfulEasierAreasHopefullyFulfillmentEnjoymentWorking ItCriticizeHoping For The Best Author:Sharlto Copley
“I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.” FoundCausesStuffGrowthMy OwnCreativeAnxietyUncomfortableMapsI Have LearnedRoad Maps Author:Merrill Markoe
“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.” WorldHumansLooksHeartSoulEyeArtistSongStuffImaginationCreativeAliveOriginalsDetailsIronyGet BetterPeterHuman HeartHeart And SoulCreative ImaginationTruth And Beauty Author:Kris Kristofferson
“I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.” IfsKnowsStoriesKidsBeautifulStuffCreativeLowsConceptsRidiculousCombinationOperaBugsIntroductionClassical MusicIntriguingBunniesVery CoolFantasia Author:Jon Hamm
“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.” KindChildrenCharacterHomeStuffResponsibilityCreativeHappenedChildhoodBehaviorAdultsStrategyBrilliantMy ChildrenDefectsPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityCopingShortcomingsBlamelessDefects Of Character Author:Ashley Judd
“Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.” WayPersonsDifferentSoulStuffDarknessCreativeDifferent WaysTwistedQuirkyCreative PersonRotting Author:Nikki Sixx
“I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.” DoneWantedStuffCreativeGrowing UpGrowingInspiredVery Good Author:Jay Duplass
“Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.” StuffCreativeHolesImpulseGoing Away Author:Mel Gibson
“Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.” IfsMindKindStillsIdeasFactsCoursesStuffDifferencesCommonKnowledgeCreativeRichDegreesSellsEducationalMillionaireGrindQualificationsTickCreative MindCommon KnowledgeDaily GrindTockTick Tock Author:Stuart Wilde
“A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.” PeopleThinkingDoneStuffPowerfulTalkingCreativeInformationHugeAmountEverydayArguingRecalls Author:Clive Thompson
“I really love action. I really love doing my own stunts. I would love to do more of that. I've done a lot of TV, but my heart is really in film. I really look forward to the film possibilities. I would love to dance in a movie again. I love all those creative aspects, like playing an instrument or dancing. I look forward to all that stuff, in future roles.” LooksHeartDoneActionFilmStuffMy OwnRolesCreativePossibilityTvsMy HeartAspectInstrumentsDancing Author:Ksenia Solo
“I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.” IdeasFunStuffImaginationLove IsTalkingCreativeInvolvedDirectors Author:Brendon Urie
“I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.” HumansStuffCreativeInteraction Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.” PlayUsedStuffParentCreativityCreativeTelevisionHorseWoodsHuts Author:Jan Brett
“The whole idea of celebrity is flattering - it helps you get into restaurants and stuff - but once you obtain some creative fulfillment, which you do on a nightly basis as a comedian, it's hard to give that up just to be the wacky neighbor on a show.” GivingIdeasHardWholeHelpingShowsStuffCreativeBasesNeighborComedianFulfillmentRestaurantsFlatteringWacky Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to write to that. I think we've done some cool, simple spots. I was very comfortable in Texas, and getting ready to push out into national stuff, try to get to that national-type creative, and then I got sidetracked with this stuff.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindDoneStuffSimpleCreativeReadyTypeDirectorsComfortableSpotsTexas Author:Jackie Earle Haley
“You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.” WantFeelsStuffMy OwnActingCompanyCreativePlansProduceSettlingGetting OldGetting OlderSettling Down Author:Denis Leary
“If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge.” PeopleIfsGrowsStuffCreativeTestsStressEdgesCome UpMettle Author:David Allen
“There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.” IndividualStuffCreativePiecesCenturyCastsEnormousJuiceMoldNineteenth CenturySensuousHandmadeCreative Juices Author:Hugh Hardy
“We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.” MadeCountryDoneWantedLeftStuffDecisionCreativeDesignIntellectualPropertyForgottenChinaIntellectual Property Author:Esther Dyson
“Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.” WantDoeIdeasHardFactsEasyStuffImaginationDifferencesInterestingCreativityCreativeSpecialDefinitionsCome UpCreatorSomething SpecialInteresting Ideas Book:Pirate Cinema Source: Pirate Cinema
“I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsWritingI CanStuffStepsCreativeHusbandMy FriendsTablesMy HusbandHanging Out Author:Carrie Underwood
“I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.” DoneFilmFunStuffCreativeTvsInvolvedLaborAnimatedAnimatorMeticulousAnimated Films Author:Ty Burrell
“With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.” PeopleWayWantHumansRealCharacterShowsActionFilmFoundStuffCreativeTeamFansBalanceExcitingRelateBridgesToneStakesCreative Team Author:Clark Gregg
“We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.” KnowsWritingKindLittlesMadeEndsWholeSchoolStuffClassCreativePiecesLike YouMapsCreative WritingFilesOutlinesPlugsClasses In School Author:Crowder