Ada Yonath
Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
It is possible to be a good scientist, a good mother and have a family and even bake a cake.
How do you balance creative work with other responsibilities?
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When was the last time you changed your mind about something?
Change of mind
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How do you know when a piece of work is finished?
Craft & work
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What inspires you to learn?
Attention & the world
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Creative Independent, to working artists, its interview series
The Creative Independent repeatedly asks working artists how they divide time between creative practice and administrative, family, or second-job obligations.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I always acted to be able to afford paints.
Emily Gosling, Interview, AnOther, 13 July 2018 source ↗
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Novelist, poet and essayist
Either you’re listening out for the kids or you’re writing. So I wrote when the kids went to bed. I wrote between nine and midnight those years. And my husband would listen out if the little guy was sick or something. It worked out.
François Ozon
Film director and screenwriter
I would be able to shoot even more if I didn’t have the promotion and all these kinds of things to do. I would do it like Fassbinder — seven films a year — if I could. Making films is a pleasure for me.
Richard Ford
Novelist and short-story writer
Well, I make the magic wherever I can. I don’t know if that’s conscious or accidental.
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I know when it’s completed but I don’t have a formula for this.
Yes. Although I acted early on, I always wanted to be a painter.
Knowledge is good for life. Life is what you play off for acting.
That was scary because I am afraid of guns.
Whenever we went out to dinner or a party, especially when I had a temper tantrum, drawing was the remedy of choice. It only calmed me down. [Laughs] It still does.
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