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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.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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