“Creativity is really about excess. And when you want to make something there is a kind of obsession that has to come with it in a healthy way, in a way that is intoxicating, you are engulfed by something.”

— Annette Bening

THR Actress Roundtable 2011, at 23 Min 01 Sec https://youtube.com/watch?v=4OePQsi3U-8?t=1381 <br class="br">From interview with The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable

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American actress 1958

Christoffer Boe (1974) Danish filmmaker

Quoted in Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_fade_black_31/, interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter (September 1, 2004)

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.”

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“I am a born builder. I grew up pretty fearless with an understanding that if you want something in life, you have to be creative in going about achieving it. You’re not always going to have an easy path to success, but if it’s important enough you’ll figure out a way to make it work.”

Jessica Alba (1981) American model, free-diver and businesswoman; TV and film actress

On being driven even at an early age in “Jessica Alba on Being Brave, Dealing With Self-Doubt and Overcoming Major Breakdowns” https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/315948 in Entrepreneur (2018 Jun 29)