That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
RAY BRADBURYTelevision is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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