Creative Quotes - Page 15

• There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.

  Jamie Chung

  Hangover, Want, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

  Ben Vereen

  Trying, Stage, Instruments

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• I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Blood, Years, Two

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• One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Creativity, Trouble, Judged

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

  Kanye West

  Gun, Knives, Up Early

  Song: Family Business

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• I've always been creative, I think.

  Emily Watson

  Thinking

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• I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.

  Renee O'Connor

  Mean, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

  Nikki Reed

  Thinking

  "'Eclipse' star Nikki Reed says Prattz has 'best heart' in new 'Bookazine'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 21, 2010.

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• If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.

  Meryle Secrest

  House, Mind, World

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• Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

  Michelle Rhee

  Jobs, Children, Creativity

  "'You’re Either With Us or You’re With the Status Quo': Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary" by Dan Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2009.

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• With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

  Helen Slater

  Self, Acting, Directors

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• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  Angela Davis

  Girl, Meaningful, Baby

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.26, Vintage

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Expression, Discipline, Healthy

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• You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

  George Nelson

  Thinking, Way, Creative Thinking

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• Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Success, Real, Lying

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• The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Inspiration, Unions

  Leon Trotsky (1970). “My life: an attempt at an autobiography”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

  Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

  Maria Jeritza

  Character, Artist, Joy

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• The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

  David Knopfler

  School, Punishment, Expectations

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• The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

  Aberjhani

  Humanity, Victory, Balance

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  Abel Ferrara

  Baseball, Guitar, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

  Hilary Swank

  Growing Up, Income, Way

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• I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

  Brad Paisley

  Real, Guitar, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Challenges, Values

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• Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Psycho, Scream

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