"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there."

-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Creativity Quotes

“We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all downâ€” locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that donâ€™t hinder running. Erinâ€™s suggestion of â€œAvoid assholesâ€ was popular.”
“I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.”
“Thereâ€™s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. Thereâ€™s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and thatâ€™s not something thatâ€™s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.”
“I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.”
“Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.”

Source : "Classics Revisited". Chapter: "Tolstoy: War and Peace", p. 192, 1968.
“Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?”
“You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.”

Source : Diane Chamberlain (2016). “The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes”, p.286, MIRA
“Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to doÂ HamletÂ for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.”

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