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- When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
- And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.
- Mike Myers, Talking about Shrek
- The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.
That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 16. The world is changing. , 08-22-04
- The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
- Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
- Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself., 08-22-04
- It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 23, 08-22-04
- You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
- Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
- If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
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