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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Smidgen
Tiniest
Cherished
Progress
Taught
Making
Art
Something

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