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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown. ”

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show. ”

I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song. ”

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants. ”

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. ”

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. ”

The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable. ”

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy. ”

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. ”

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future. ”