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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

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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Creativity

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We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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