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“When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”

Ifs Writing Serious Okay Convinced Muse Writer's Block

Author:Maya Angelou

“When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.”

Thinking Knows Writing Faces Song Audience Fans Draws Reflection Validity Constantly Thinking

Author:Chester Bennington

“When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."”

World Writing Rooms Worst Beats Critics Retarded

Author:Vin Diesel

“When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with." But another part of me knows that when I'm past the stage of writing, the book is gonna have good things about it, bad things about it - probably more bad than good. I just know that. That's who I am.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Book Might Past Stage Reader Good Things Who I Am Bad Things Always Be Happy

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?”

Knows Writing Trying Looks Stories Life Is Emotional Distance Chaos Clarity

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”

Writing Spirit Waiting Air Imaginative Instability Conjuring

Author:Charles Baxter

“When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Firsts Ends Done Jobs Literature Paper Pages Scripts Artistic Cinema Contribution Pens Documents Publish

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.”

Writing I Can Names Wish Forget Conversation Clothes Each Day Pathways Blocked

Author:Kate Atkinson

“When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way”

Way Feels Writing Trying Sometimes Pieces

Author:John Zorn

“When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”

Writing Pain Darkness

Author:Anne Rice

“When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.”

Writing Important Real Romance Animal Important Things Real Life

Author:Jill Shalvis

“When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.”

Writing Ideas Artist Inspired Come Up

Author:St. Lucia

“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.”

Writing Years Littles Bits Hours Break Week Months Couple Little Bit Pace

Author:Amy Ray

“When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me.”

Thinking Turns Father Stars Emperor Luke Death Star

Author:Dane Cook

“When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do.”

Relationship

Author:Eric Clapton

“When I've acted, and it's not been something I've written or have had at least a hand in writing, I do think there is a controlling side of me that is frustrated by that. And I actually don't think that it's a bad thing, because if I'm going to be in movies, in large part they're going to be movies that I write.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Hands Sides Written Bad Things Frustrated

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.”

Accepting Opening Opening Up

Author:Eva Mendes

“When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.”

Kind Done Film Culture Shots Tests Cameras Glasses Shock Samurai Culture Shock Kimonos

Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.”

Trying Done Driven Soccer Being The Best Ballet Always Trying Gymnastics

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“When I've done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there's not much life behind it.”

Feels Littles Done Stuff Behinds Flats

Author:Grace Helbig

“When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.”

Thinking Knows Fine Okay Finished Titles

Author:Brian Eno

“When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.”

Thinking Next Projects Finished

Author:Mike Rutherford

“When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.”

Needs May I Can Business Gone Bed Delusion Working It Inevitability Back To Work

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.”

Involved Projects Massive Distraction Deadline

Author:Max Tundra

“When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.”

Looks Tables League Liverpool Getting Along Liverpool Fc Everton Liverpool Fans

Author:Bill Shankly

“When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?”

Long Hard Enough Government Criticism Hitting

Author:Billy Crystal

“When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."”

People Wells Sense Of Humor Meltdowns

Author:Lily Tomlin

“When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.”

Kind Hard One Thing Tvs Familiar Hard Times Cheer Realistic Positiveness

Author:Bruno Heller

“When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.”

Giving Moving Pieces Heard Painting Give Me

Author:Kate Bush

“When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.”

Needs Motivational Strong Decision Heard Vote Being Strong

Author:Ronald Reagan

“When I've lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess - deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I'll know what to do.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Whole Remember Lost Answers Creative Path Invisible My Way Confused Compass Deep Inside Resourceful I Am Confused

Author:Steve Goodier

“When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.”

People Mind Felt Audience Happened Response

Author:Franklyn Ajaye

“When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Walks Mets Changing The World Punk Walks Of Life

Author:Steve Diggle

“When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”

Want Painting Bottom Finished

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.”

Want Trying Said Sometimes Hard Song Records Productions Over It Vocal

Author:Sampha

“When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.”

Done Opportunity Community Leadership Gone Havens Down And Meetings Sat Committees

Author:Fred Hollows

“When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.”

I Can Europe Phenomenon Opera

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.”

Men Way Firsts Lasts Young Men And Women Harm Young Man Resorts

Author:Barack Obama

“When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.”

Writing Years Different Self Might Young Talking Five Groups Taught Six Conscious Adults Seven Teenager Seven Years Self Conscious Detached Be Young

Author:Alice Mattison

“When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.”

Familiar Wheels Familiar Things

Author:Billy Corgan

“When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed.”

People Trying Mean Country Running Religion Atheism Missions Like Me

Author:Randall Terry

“When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".”

Humans I Can Real Fighting Realizing Weapons Monsters Alchemist

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.”

World Mind Children Remember Song Serious Projects Singing Albums Wraps Christmas Day Singing Songs

Author:Mary J. Blige

“When Ibn al-Arabi and his followers speak of „Being,“ they do not mean the Being of God as opposed to that of the creatures, or vice versa. They mean Being as such, in all the forms it may take, without exception. For them the „science of Being“ is the science of all sciences, since nothing but Being is. If someone can understand this science, he has understood the principle of everything. To grasp the nature of Being Itself is to grasp the nature of all that exists. „Love“ is one of the primary attributes of Being, which means that whatever exists must participate in it, just as it must participate in Being. To understand the nature of Love and its myriad self-manifestations is to grasp the nature of Being Itself, for the two are in fact one. (p. 27)”

Love Sufi Gnosis Ibn Arabi Fakhruddin Iraqi The Being Of God The Science Of Being

Author:Fakhruddin Iraqi

Source: Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes

“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

Ifs Way Firsts Ends Hands Desire Pleasure Boys Doors Pride Lovers Agree Ice Let It Go Identical Acquisition

Author:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“When ICE comes, I stand here with a blowtorch.”

Social Justice Injustice Resistance Oppression Ice Fascism Nonconformity Freedom Fighter Anti Fascism

Author:Abhijit Naskar

Source: With Love From A Blue Rock

“When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.”

People Ideas

Author:Nancy Duarte

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.”

Historical Perspective Media Studies Contextualization

Author:Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Source: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe

“When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.”

Ideas Young Criticism Vulnerable

Author:Janet Echelman

“When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.”

Ideas Religion Consciousness Humility Harmony Devotion

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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