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“Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.”

World Art Use Together Rooms Common Doors Position Balls Notes Musical Architecture Likes Admire Verbs Bounce Mute Nouns Recluse Common Things Adverbs Musical Notes

Author:Maya Angelou

“I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.”

I Can School Bits Careers Singing Notes Notion Piano Grades Abandoned Scraping

Author:Stephen Curry

“A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.”

Thinking Want Should Trying Kids Comfort Prejudice Notes University Discomfort Preconceptions

Author:Charles Koch

“The script is simply a series of notes for the film.”

Film Series Notes Scripts

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.”

Years Song My Own Notes Worried Wire High Notes

Author:Vince Neil

“Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.”

Ends Stories Three Broken Notes Musical Glasses Favors Traditional Realms Virginia Rapture Sameness True Life Philip Climax Woolf

Author:Michael Cunningham

“I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.”

Ifs Knows Littles Book Kids Night Dies Reading Bed Notes Boxes Dinner Cleaning Little Kid Publish Rhyming Cleaning Up

Author:Judy Blume

“So it's nice to know that Rita had that impact, and it was nice to end a character on a high note like that. But, again, in the moment... I always say, nobody was more devastated than me [from Rita's death in Dexter]!”

Knows Ends Moments Character Nice Impact Notes Devastated High Notes

Author:Julie Benz

“On a more personal note we in this country we have a very tragic situation occur at one of our universities and, it really has taken the country aback and there's a real grieving process that we're going through, And going through it mourning and learning about the victims and-learning about it and showing our support, you know, I hesitate to say, how does your country handle what is that type of carnage on a daily basis?”

Knows Doe Real Country Process Situation Support Taken Type Bases Victim Notes University Handle Grieving Mourning Tragic Support You Carnage Grieving Process

Author:Jon Stewart

“Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.”

Ideas Enough Conversation Paper Notes Storm Nervous Capture Lightning Journal Electronics

Author:Paul Saffo

“I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.”

Reading Opinion Notes Scripts Filmmaker Offering Emerging Love Of Reading

Author:Barbara Crampton

“For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting to be written next. And the decision driving which one of them it should be was never based on how long it had waited or how many accumulated pages of notes I had.”

Should Writing Long Two Book Three Next Waiting Decision Novel Written Pages Notes Finished Driving

Author:John Irving

“My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.”

Mother Heard Notes Singers

Author:Jon Gordon

“There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.”

People Hard Remember Blue Notes Come Up Hearing Expensive Oscars 80s

Author:Jon Gordon

“Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.”

“I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren't getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Art Artist Attention Talking Internet Notes Comic Instant Online Discouraged Gratification Cartoonist Instant Gratification Aggravated

Author:Liz Prince

“I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes" are what we should be aspiring to, but the Internet means something different to me because I've always been primarily interested in publishing physical books.”

Thinking Giving Should Mean Book Different Young Artist Too Much Internet Notes Likes Compare Not Sure Publishing Young Artists

Author:Liz Prince

“I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the bare minimum I need to start the story, and often that really is a bare minimum - it's a character in a situation, and I know nothing about the character, I know nothing about the situation, and then I think about it for a long time, and make notes about where I think the story is going to go and so on, but I don't really make notes to do with the background or the magic system or the world.”

Thinking Knows World Needs Long Character Stories Situation Magic Long Time Notes Work Out Backgrounds Minimum

Author:Garth Nix

“I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.”

Notes Apology Behaviour Abhorrent

Author:Amy Adams

“I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.”

Mean Together Originals Notes

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.”

Heart Play Music Risk Jazz Notes

Author:Steve Lacy

“We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.”

Notes Quarters Symphony Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Stars Novel Sweet Return Notes Bunch No Idea Impulse Mail Stamps Blown Away

Author:Anne Lamott

“Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!”

Dies Notes Liberalism Berlin Uprising Vexation

Author:Ferdinand Lassalle

“Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.”

Father Notes Deathbed

Author:Hugh Leonard

“Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.”

Knows Sometimes Talking Assuming Notes

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.”

Children Games Sound Notes Fantastic Recognizing Delighted Hide And Seek

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.”

Culture Literature Heard Notes Preserves

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.”

Notes Ill Illness Medical Mental Illness Mentally Ill Artefacts

Author:Hilary Mantel

“The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.”

Two Country Running Beats Jazz Notes New Orleans Groove Bending American Music

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Writing Looks Said Helping Use Humor Would Be Funny Language Like You Paper Computer Notes More Money Being Cool Need Help Clip Ransom Paper Clips

Author:Demetri Martin

“I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.”

Way Kind Book Play Song My Own Records Written Style Picks Down And Notes Tunes Banjos My Own Style Strumming

Author:Steve Martin

“When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.”

Way Simple Notes My Favorite Manage Melody Songwriters Right Time Chords Singer Songwriters

Author:Dave Matthews

“If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Long Running Moving Three Next Bits Break Cutting Scene Little Bit Pages Theater Notes

Author:James McAvoy

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

Trying Art Color Shapes Notes Fine Arts Visual Art Famous Artist Artists And Life

Author:Joan Miro

“I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.”

Thinking Notes Musical Eyeballs Musical Notes

Author:David Mitchell

“To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.”

Thinking Writing Book Hard Exercise Notes Publishing

Author:Maria Mitchell

“When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.”

Knows Want Should Trying Persons Company Failing Keys Notes Workers Department Reports Hackers

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.”

Looks Children Has Beens Certain Fall Compassion Lord Notes Sparrows Precious Children

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.”

Made Spiritual Records Ordinary Notes Prose Diaries Spiritual Experience Lengthy

Author:Edvard Munch

“I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.”

Self Stories Bits Consciousness Pieces Written Exercise Train Notes Manage Bus Dozen Formal Journal Threatening Notebook Self Consciousness Bits And Pieces

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.”

Notes Melody

Author:Willie Nelson

“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”

Men Should Two Able Wife Notes Notion Explanation Birthday Bank Accounts Beatty

Author:Warren Beatty

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”

Ifs Want Play Together Beautiful Black White Music Prejudice Harmony Notes Equality Togetherness Beautiful Music

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.”

Has Beens President Republican Speech Notes Debt Expected Budgets Courtesy Ceilings Insulting Partisans Truman Debt Ceiling

Author:Grover Norquist

“What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.”

Ifs Happens Gratitude Benefits Grateful Notes I've Learned Phenomenon Proven

Author:Deborah Norville

“When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.”

States Spirit Emotion Holy Notes Scales Holy Spirit Solitary Microphones

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.”

Writing Years Two Ideas Stories Months Fairs Notes Intense My Time Traveled Maidens Two Months Rewriting Folders Maiden Names

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.”

Thinking Writing Fiction Terrible Husband Died Notes My Husband Contemplating Journal Exhausted Diaries Terrible Times

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.”

Writing Trying Easy Challenges Dark Notes Chronology

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

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