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• What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Creative, Trying

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• ...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.

  Ralph Caplan

  Running, Reading, Creative

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• The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Creative, Busy, Lifetime

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Passion, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.

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• You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

  Pete Cashmore

  Stress, Space, Long

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• I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

  Eric Fischl

  Character, Thinking, Opening Up

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• For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

  John Frusciante

  Friendship, Mean, Creative

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• The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

  B. Traven

  Should Have, Creative, Biographies

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• The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

  Richard Hamming

  Inspirational, Thinking, Creative

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Lonely, Encouragement, Insecure

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• The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

  Donald M. MacKinnon

  Simple, Creative, Chaos

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• What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

  Richard Gurley Drew

  Science, Creative, Details

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• As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Creative, Want, Canvas

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• 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.

  Lisa Randall

  Skills, People, Creative

  "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.

  Marc Jacobs

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• If you're a creative person, you'd better not read what people write about you, because if it's good it'll blow your head up and it'll force you not to take the subway and you'll start taking cabs, and you'd better stay around people, and if it's bad, it just hurts your feelings so much it discourages you.

  James McBride

  Hurt, Writing, Blow

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

  Frank Barron

  Men, Creative, Sparks

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• There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

  Jason Blum

  Giving, Creative, Anything Goes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

  Mike Shinoda

  Ideas, Creative, Sometimes

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Voice, Creative

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

  Carla Gugino

  Wings, Creative, Trying

  "Carla Gugino talks about her diverse career — and playing Cathy Rush in 'The Mighty Macs'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October, 2011.

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• When you're a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you're married to them or not, you're going to run into creative conflicts. If you're a couple, certain inhibitions and barriers are gone. I have those barriers with other people, but I don't have them with my wife.

  Black Francis

  Running, Art, Couple

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.

  Wayne Coyne

  Dark, Moon, Creative

  "15 Minutes With Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne". Interview with Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. April 12, 2010.

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• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Mean, Thinking, People

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