Es hilft nicht, sich über Schwierigkeiten kreativer Berufe zu beschweren, man hat sich schließlich freiwillig darauf eingelassen. Stattdessen sollte man seine Inspiration pflegen und sie nicht mit seinem Gejammer verscheuchen.

Auch wenn es nicht so scheint: Jeder ist kreativ. Denn die Existenz allein bringt die Neugier mit sich und diese ist der Ausgangspunkt jeder Idee.

Wenn man sich vorstellt, eine Idee käme nicht aus dem eigenen Inneren, sondern von außen auf einen zugeflogen, fühlt man sich geradezu dazu auserwählt, sie umzusetzen.

Man sollte sich und seiner Kreativität stets Aufgaben stellen. So wird sie "trainiert" und gestärkt.

"Frustration unterbricht den Prozess nicht. Sie ist der Prozess"

Ohne Hoch- und Tiefphasen, ohne Schweiß und Tränen und ohne Freude oder Verzweiflung kann keine Kunst entstehen.

Perfektion ist der Feind der Kreativität. Sie hält einen auf und nimmt die Freude am künstlerischen Prozess. Stattdessen sollte man sich darum bemühen, "so gut wie möglich" zu arbeiten.

Angst ist eine primitive Emotion, die wir nicht ausschalten können, daher sollten wir uns nicht von ihr leiten lassen. Man kann sie nur akzeptieren und (mit ihr) weiterarbeiten.

Originalität ist eine Utopie. Man kann nichts erschaffen, was man nicht mindestens in Teilen einmal wahrgenommen hat. Was zählt ist Authentizität und Individualität.

Der künstlerische Berufsweg sollte niemals an finanziellen Problemen scheitern. Keine Institution sollte einen dazu führen, Unsummen an Krediten aufzunehmen, um eine künstlerische Ausbildung abschließen zu können.

Wer verbissen versucht, Kreativität und Karriere zu vereinen, wird in den meisten Fällen scheitern. Die Kunst sollte in erster Linie Genuss und ein Mittel zur Verarbeitung von Emotionen sein.

Befindet man sich an einem Punkt, an dem es unmöglich scheint, der Leidenschaft zu folgen, sollte man sich stattdessen auf die Neugier einlassen. Die Leidenschaft verlangt Kraft, die nicht immer zur Verfügung steht. Neugier hingegen zeigt einem neue Wege.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

Kathy Burke has been a real inspiration. I think she's brilliant. I like the fact she doesn't care what she looks like on TV and just gets really into character. Obviously, she can do drama as well, but it's her comedy I love.

Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.