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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

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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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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Making art is an act of faith.
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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
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In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
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