MONEY MATTERS

Don't worry about money, ever; just guarantee its manifestation in your life by doing what frightens you.

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TO STEAL

To take another's ideas or words and make them your own is to say "I am afraid that I won't make the grade, and certainly so and so must know better, and who will find out anyway?" The perpetrator suffers the most in all this. Through his trickery he has just told himself loud and clear that he has no voice of his own and he does not matter.

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THIS TOWN

We try to do our work in this town, we try to breathe creative life into whatever they throw our way, yet often it goes unappreciated, or worse, taken advantage of. What can we do, it's part of the landscape - the playing field is never level and we are always behind the eight ball.

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HOLLYWOOD AND THE CREATIVE IDENTITY

Our creative identity is our greatest source of strength and also our Achilles' heel. It is also the first thing we put on the auction block, hoping a buyer will emerge who will understand and love us. That is rarely the case, as buyers are interested in product, our creative identity often just an inconvenience to them.

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THE COURAGE TO LEARN

It is endlessly perplexing to me that some people maintain they know all they need to know about art and anything that came after what they were taught is just new-fangled rubbish. This idea, the idea that art stops is terrifying - if art can stop, that what chance do we have for immortality?

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NOTHING WRONG WITH NO

Hollywood is full of people who say YES to everything and constantly give their power away. But our ability to say NO can be our greatest asset, our most fervent affirmation that when we say no to the wrong thing, we are saying yes to the right thing.

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ESCAPISM

Whenever I do something silly, wasteful, and self destructive, most of the time it is my unique way of evading creative responsibility.

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