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• If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
• Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than…
• If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be…
• There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
• Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
• We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
• The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect…
• You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
• Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write…
• Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how…
• Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in…
• The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you…

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