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		There’s something else that bears repeating here: Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edwin Catmull 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ornette Coleman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Nance 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin Hood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oliver Sim 
			 
			
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		In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin Hood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Antonoff 
			 
			
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		In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hans Hofmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Blaise Pascal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Henry David Thoreau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kim Stanley Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In marriage, you sacrifice the adrenaline rush of seeing someone new for the comfort of being with someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Amanda de Cadenet