William Atherton Quotes
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
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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 feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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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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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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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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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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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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Craft is part of the creative process.
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I do things very impulsively; I don't really like to plan things at all. If I am passionate about something then I will do it.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.
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If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
