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“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: buffy-sainte-marie, creativity, indigenous-american, native-american

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“You have to leave room in life to dream.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: american-indigenous, buffy-sainte-marie, dream, life, native-american

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#3

“Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don’t know if you’re gonna have a dream or what you’re gonna dream about”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: american-indigenous, buffy-sainte-marie, creativity, dreams, music, native-american, poetry, songs

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“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: artist, buffy-sainte-marie, creativity, dreams, indigenous-american, native-american

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“The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: buffy-sainte-marie, creative-process, editing, indigenous-american

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“Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: buffy-sainte-marie, creativity, indigenous-american, native-american, same-with-fiction-writing

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#7

“That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

tags: artists, buffy-sainte-marie, creating, creative-process, indigenous-american, native-american, projects

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#8

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."-- Chief Seattle, Duwamish”
― Chief Seattle

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#9

“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you
and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them
you will not know them, and what you do not know
you will fear. What one fears one destroys.”
― Dan George

tags: cousins

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#10

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#11

“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.”
― Garth Nix

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#12

“You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
― Robin Williams

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#13

“The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.”
― Vincent Price, Vincent Price, his movies, his plays, his life

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#14

“There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.”
― Vincent Price, I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography

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#15

“There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.”
― Vincent Price, I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography

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#16

“Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting, but if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter has in store for YOU.”
― Anonymous

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#17

“One must always be careful with books and treasure them.”
― Cary Grant

tags: books, cary-grant, good-stuff, jennifer-grant, wisdom

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#18

“I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful.”
― Brooke Hampton

tags: adventure, barefoot-five, brooke-hamtpon, travel, wanderlust, wild-woman

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#19

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Thomas Paine

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#20

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." -2nd Chronicles 7:14”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

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#21

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp

tags: music, power-of-music

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#22

“Two of the essential keys to magick that I don't see discussed nearly enough are enthusiasm and sincerity.”
― Mat Auryn, Mastering Magick: A Course in Spellcasting for the Psychic Witch

tags: enthusiasm, magic, magick, occult, sincerity, spell-casting, spellcasting, spells, witch, witchcraft

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#23

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
― Roald Dahl

tags: writing

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#24

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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