Teju Cole Quotes
The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
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Craft is part of the creative process.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
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I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
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The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
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I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.
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With increased surveillance its not unusual that you would pick up more cases.
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The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
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'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
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The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage.
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In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.
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The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.
