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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
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Libertyville
Illinois
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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
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Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.
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Leap, and the net appears.
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It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
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Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
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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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