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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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