![I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-was-very-combative-as-a-creative-person-at-that-time-while-the-ben-stiller-sho.jpg)
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In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time. Carol Shields
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I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long. Carol Vorderman
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There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can. Carlos Delgado
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term. Carlos Ghosn
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I've often stopped working for long periods. Carl Andre
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Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek. C. S. Lewis
long feelings promise
The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.
long speak
Who are you?' One who has waited long for you to speak.
long twenties syllables
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
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Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. Carre Otis
people ends process
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. Carol Roth
people technique should
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. Carol Kane
people stuff-happens critical
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
people source materials
They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences. Carol Leifer
people concerned
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.
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All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt. Carol Moseley Braun
people parent trying
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
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I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do. Carlos Beltran
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. Carlos Fuentes
creative juggling
We have to get creative about juggling planes. Tad Hutcheson
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. Agnes de Mille
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The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees. Lynn Coady
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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.
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The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff. Alice Walker
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The creative imperative seems to be directed at getting around government regulations.
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There are a lot of creative types looking for the next big thing. Well, these days, environment is it.
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