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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

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