Ellis Paul Torrance Quotes
Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."
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Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.
