Margaret Sackville Quotes

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

I go from day to day and game to game.

I don't want to get lost in everything. I just want to keep the same work ethic.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

There's always so much stuff to do. I work best when my diary just says 'MNEK, MNEK, MNEK.'

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.