I Quotes
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“I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.”
“I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.”
“I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.”
“I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.”
“I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.”
“I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.”
“I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.”
“I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!”
“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”
Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend
“I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.”
“I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.”
“I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.”
“I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.”
“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
“I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.”
“I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.”
“I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.”
“I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'”
Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan
“I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.”
“I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!”
“I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.”
“I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.”
“I've... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.”
“I'Â’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnÂ’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.”
“I'Â’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.”
“I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.”
“I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.”
“I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.”
Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus
“I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen”
Source: A diary of private prayer
“I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.”
Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.”
“I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.”
“I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.”
“I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.”
“I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.”
“I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".”
“I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?”
“I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.”
“I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.”
“I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I go through a transformation? Will I be bored or not? Is it a good or bad narrative experience?”
“I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable”
“I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?"”
“I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.”
“I, as school kid, was a member of the Civil Guard, something like today's NCC. We had to salute our officers who went round in jeeps. So I thought one day I will also ride in a jeep and somebody else will salute me.”
“I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.”