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“I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be”

Want Writing Might Games Challenges Novel Biographies Arbitrary

Author:Edmund White

“I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.”

Want Writing Made Book

Author:Grace Slick

“I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.”

Want Writing Book

Author:Ben Lerner

“I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.”

Want Writing Wanted Pay Paid

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I didn't want to write unless I could say, and think for myself. I looked to peers that I not only respected but those that supported that. I finished becoming who I am today by sticking up for myself as a voice, but that is in part thanks to the huge role the good guys I chose to work with played in my professional development. Some really terrific human beings who loved horror welcomed me with open arms.”

Thinking Want Writing Humans Today Guy Voice Human Beings Roles Huge Arms Development Becoming Horror Finished Who I Am Thanks Peers Terrific Good Guy Professional Development Open Arms

Author:Karen Walton

“I didn't want us to abnormal. I didn't want all this chaos and underworld crap... but that's where we'd come from. The choas was part of us. Part of what we were. And I was afraid if we lost it completely, we might lose part of ourselves.”

Ifs Want Might Lost Loses Chaos Crap Want U Abnormal Underworld

Author:Kevin Brooks

“I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.”

Want Inspirational Feelings Walks Rooms Empowering Dressings Funny Inspirational Cocktails Dressing Rooms Feeling Depressed

Author:Sara Blakely

“I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush.”

Ifs Use Today Three Week Hair Areas Teeth Dirty Showers Brushes

Author:George Carlin

Source: Brain Droppings

“I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.”

Waste My Time Wasting My Time

Author:Patti Smith

“I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.”

Watches Growing Up Growing Tvs

Author:Missy Peregrym

“I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.”

Film Watches Growing Up Growing Tvs

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.”

Said Wanted Together Film Watches Saws Pieces Mets Scripts Boards They Said Casting Proposal

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.”

Watches Football Busy Cartoon Too Busy Playing Football

Author:Alan Shearer

“I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!”

Stories Kids Beautiful Film Can Do Watches Tvs Unique Mediums Continuing

Author:David Lynch

“I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.”

Reason Levels Watches Study No Reason Tape Pacquiao

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.”

Wells Has Beens Shows Numbers Watches Awards Grapes Sour Emmys Award Shows Sour Grapes

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.”

Guy Winning Lost Sports Team Football Kings Theater Quitting Soccer Captains Football Team Prom

Author:Patrick Wilson

“I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.”

Hard School Mathematics

Author:David Hilbert

“I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.”

Years Streets Wall Following Finished Hung October November

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.”

World Hard Knowing This World Hard Work

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.”

Feels Hard Language Perfect Hard Work Computer Vans Not Perfect Rubies Python Perfect For Me Guidos

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.”

Hard Hard Work Down And

Author:Kevin Hart

“I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it”

Break Down And Killing Meat Sections Packages

Author:Marg Helgenberger

“I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.”

People Able Young Luxury

Author:Jodie Foster

“I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.”

Green Excited Screens Fantastic Beast

Author:Colin Farrell

“I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.”

People Kind Left Felt Term Memories Worry Records Messages Good Records

Author:Tina Turner

“I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.”

Ifs Feels Left Felt Worry New York Like You Baby Leaving Things To Do Right Thing Consumed Lanes My Baby Fast Lane

Author:Sissy Spacek

“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.”

Hands Wanted Lasts Lost Felt Easy Interest Careers Worry Records Involved Beats Tired Celebrate Exhausted Get Involved Lawsuit

Author:Tom Petty

“I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.”

Ideas Done Eye Worry Confidence Ignorant No Idea Realising

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.”

Ifs Long Enough Bits Worry Response Had Enough No Response

Author:Steve Martin

“I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.”

Writing Book Self Enrichment

Author:Linda Tripp

“I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.”

Writing Aspect Public Life Small Parts

Author:Patti Smith

“I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.”

Writing Trying Years Stills Hard Mother Names Cases Husband Argument Thirds Died Lays Raised

Author:Anne Lamott

“I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.”

Writing Past Fiction Thirty

Author:Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.”

Writing Kind Two Remember Musician

Author:Bill Bruford

“I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.”

Way Writing Mind Humans Kind Two Remember Asks Human Beings Player Information Band Musician Picks Harmony Superiors Great Things Chords Good Information

Author:Bill Bruford

“I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.”

Writing Order Teaching

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.”

Knows Writing All Things Graduates Engineering Engineers Illiterate Mining Uranium Mining

Author:Rube Goldberg

“I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.”

Writing Felt Study Discipline Theology Elites Biblical Testament Ruling New Testament

Author:N. T. Wright

“I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.”

Writing Wanted Poetry

Author:Maxine Kumin

“I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to keep cribbed notes I could come back to if necessary. I wanted this to feel like a conversation because it was what I wanted to say that mattered, not how it looked on paper.”

Ifs Feels Writing Wanted Night Conversation Speech Paper Notes Memorable

Author:Corey Taylor

“I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.”

Writing Years Mind School Numbers Students Quiet Criticism Graduates Workshops Graduate School Criticism Of Others

Author:Kevin Keck

“I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.”

Writing Years Firsts Children Two Book Wanted America Mines Accepted Nine Rejected Publishers April Publication Enchanted Nine Years Children's Books Picture Books

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“I didn't write songs for a very long time.”

Writing Long Song Long Time

Author:Martin Gore

“I didn't write superheroes for the first 10 years of my comic career. I was just doing fan fiction. I wasn't thinking about superheroes at all, even though I loved them. I was raised by Watchmen and Dark Knight, so I was raised in with it's all been done, they don't worry about that.”

Thinking Writing Done Dark Worry Comic Superhero

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”

Writing Book Education Sells

Author:Larry Hagman

“I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.”

Writing Done Feelings Intention Memoir Feel Better

Author:Leigh Newman

“I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Mind Children Book Enjoy Audience Excited Target Good Book Children's Books Target Audience

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I didn't write. I just wandered about.”

Writing

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“I didnt always have things, but I had people. I had a mother and a father who I would match against any other. [...] I had friends who would leap in front of a bus for me. You need to know that I was loved, that whatever my lack of religious feeling, I have always loved my people and that broad love is directly related to the specific love I feel for you.”

Love Inspirational Community Family Parents Material Possessions

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

Source: Between the World and Me

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