Creative Life Quotes - Page 1

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman / Novelist
Creative
Creative Life
Enough
Screenwriter
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce / Author
Fear
Creative
Creative Life
Live
Being
Life Fear Must
Life Fear Live
Wrong
Must
Lose
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Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.
Peter Hedges / Novelist
Creative Life
Heroic
Mothers
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Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it's hard to separate.
Julia Leigh / Novelist
Creative
Creative Life
Real Life
Life Work Real
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My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Creative Life
Life Work Hope
Quieter
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I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
Ruth St. Denis /
Believe
Creative
Creative Life
Magic
Stars
Life Believe I Believe
Hour
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Creative Life
Devoted
Readership
Reinforcement
Satisfied
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In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
Scott Weiland / Musician
Bowie
Creative Life
Enormous
Influence
David
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Collaboration is a vital part of my creative life. I've had success with Guy Clark and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
Rodney Crowell / Musician
Cash
Collaboration
Creative Life
Clark
Johnny
Vital
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When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
Alice Ripley /
Creative Life
Disservice
Life Your Will
Dabble
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The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know how to do them.
Monty Don / Television Presenter
Creative Life
Truth Is
Life Truth Never
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That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.
Adam Granduciel /
Inspiring
Creative Life
Window
Life Time Window
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I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd / Musician
Aquariums
Artist
Creative Life
Tapping
Thinking
Unexplored
Essential
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One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Creative
Creative Life
Forever
Lost
Moments
Life Work Great
Joys
Loose
Observations
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Carlos Fuentes / Novelist
Cameras
Century
Creative
Creative Life
Fantastic
Possibility
Being
Free
Camera
Pen
Prospect
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It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
Jhumpa Lahiri / Author
Creative
Creative Life
Dare
Hesitant
Long Time
Pursue
Uncertain
Life Time Myself
Writer
Afraid
Envision
Took
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
Wislawa Szymborska / Poet
Creative
Creative Life
Humanity
Mankind
Understood
Life Good Humanity
Save
Something Good
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I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
Alicia Witt / Film Actress
Awkward
Creative Life
Personal Life
Life Good Your
Advanced
Socially
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I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.
Jenny Packham /
Career Path
Creative Life
Destined
Realised
Potentially
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Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not you decide to be a parent. It doesn't matter.
Kathryn Hahn / Actress
Creative
Creative Life
Evolve
Imagine
Parent
Life Your Matter
Inside
Possibly
Ways
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I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.
Juliette Lewis / Actress
Creative Life
Distracted
Lonely
Wholeheartedly
Life Myself Mind
Signed
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All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones / Actor
Imagination
Creative
Creative Life
Educated
Important
Privilege
Accordingly
All My Life
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Creative Life
Life Love World
Directing
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I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
Alice Ripley /
Creative Life
Life Always Yourself
Life I Am Yourself
Life Yourself I Am
Feeds
Hire
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade / Playwright
Creative Life
Sick
Truth Is
Twisted
Life Death Truth
Life Truth Death
Hugely
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I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
George Saunders / Writer
Artistic
Combination
Contradictory
Creative
Creative Life
Cumulative
Might
Sincerely
Vision
Appear
Occupied
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Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life.
Matt Dillon / Actor
Bottom
Bottom Line
Creative Life
Fame
Prestige
Life Power Me
Aspects
Directing
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Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.
Chris Claremont / Comic Book Writer
Creative Life
Preaching
Readership
Taking Risks
Converted
Craft
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The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh / Author
Running
Children
Contemplative
Contemplative Life
Creative Life
Details
Feeding
Human Relationships
Thousand
Counter
Bearing
Educating
Myriad
Occupations
Rearing
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As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
John Fusco /
Creative
Creative Life
Enough
Remains
Screenplays
Life Fight Your
Writer
Books
Fight
Novels
Terms
Rewarding
Vastly
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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones / Actor
Creative Life
Ideas
Linear
Narrative
Past
Thinking
Life Future Thinking
Easily
Occur
Strictly
Simultaneously
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The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
Tommy Lee Jones / Actor
Quality
Constant
Creative
Creative Life
Emotional
Emotional Life
Fulfillment
Greed
Scope
Life Hope Me
Living
Basic
Changes
Instincts
Desires
Guess
Larger
Life Changes
Remain
Seem
Sense
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The momentum of my creative life and intellectual growth is still the momentum of breaking out of fundamentalism. Because of that, I'm very grateful for it. But I'm also grateful that at the center of it was something that I still believe to be true - those fundamentals of faith.
Scott Derrickson / Director
Creative Life
Fundamentalism
Momentum
Life Faith Believe
Be True
Breaking
Center
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When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
Will Self / Author
Approval
Creative
Creative Life
Criticism
Destroyed
Giving
Unusual
Anyone
Inclined
Least
Seek
Sustained
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Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.
Skylar Grey / Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Failure
Creative
Creative Life
Difficult
Felt
Important
Intertwined
Long
Personal Life
Professional Life
Struggle
Way
Years
Most
Really
Go
Very
Thing
Actually
End
Through
Day
End Of The Day
Few
Personal
Professional
Treat
Where
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