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		Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil Sedaka
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Umberto Eco
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kenneth Fisher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alessandro Michele
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alison Gopnik
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edith Schaeffer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Agnes Gund
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Shania Twain
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil MacGregor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daisaku Ikeda
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oscar Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Rowling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But out of limitations comes creativity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Debbie Allen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Frauenfelder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Philippe Petit
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jan de Bont