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There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.
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I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
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