"The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work."

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“I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.”
“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.”
“I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.”
“I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.”
“I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.”
“Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.”
“In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.”
“Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”

Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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