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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Beads
Buckets
Sweat
Creativity
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