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“Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.”

Writing Sometimes Stuff Nice Come Up Melody Hunters Really Nice Nice Day Forte

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.”

Writing Humans Force Women Love Is Wonderful Strange Irrational Wonderful Things Ukulele

Author:Amy Dickinson

“When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.”

Writing Doe Guy Sex Women Feminism Scene Cameras Deviants Objectifying

Author:Whitney Cummings

“The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the host, write additional thanks and reciprocate. You needn't bring anything.”

Writing Shows Women Essentials Thanks Host Guests Bargains Reciprocate

Author:Judith Martin

“The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.”

Writing Women Existence Telling The Truth

Author:Azar Nafisi

“When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.”

Writing Motivational Expression Letters Down And Distress Harsh Venting

Author:Donald T. Phillips

“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.”

“Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.”

Writing Book Pain Sleep Future Rain Window Recipes Premonition

Author:Ani DiFranco

“If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason”

People Thinking Writing Doe Reason Age Religion Picks Fortune Old Age Phrases Jargon Age Of Reason

Author:Thomas Paine

“Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.”

Thinking Should Writing America Form Next Proud Boxes Checks African American Greek Grandmother Heritage Grandfather Next Time Cultural Heritage Hominids

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.”

Inspirational Writing Action Tongue Checks Cash

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.”

Writing Wanted Song Explanation Chicks

Author:James Taylor

“There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.”

Writing Ideas Reason Perfect Protect Direct Initials

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.”

Giving Writing I Can Give Me Satisfaction

Author:Paul Beatty

“I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.”

Writing Littles Body Games Roles Becoming Skins Monsters Covered Manuals Playing Games Role Playing

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.”

Knows Writing Wells Style Copies Writing Style

Author:Josh Lieb

“I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.”

Feels Writing Book Different Audience Tvs Book Writing

Author:Josh Lieb

“I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.”

Writing Happens Forget

Author:Josh Lieb

“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.”

Ifs Want Writing Firsts Mean Book Tvs Amount Ridiculous

Author:Josh Lieb

“The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.”

Writing Mind Stuff Faster Throwing

Author:Josh Lieb

“I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing.”

Writing Shows Sides Acting Balance Right Now Findings Exciting Exciting Things

Author:Steven Bauer

“I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.”

Thinking Writing Past Stars Stuff Written Pressure All Time Screenplays Great Writers

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.”

People Needs Writing Remember Names Speech

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.”

Thinking Writing Hard Acting Hardest

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.”

Writing Believe I Believe Tools Improvisation

Author:Ivan Reitman

“I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Kind Would Be Able Subjects Politician Members Prison Paint Saint Gang Controversial Serials Laughable Gang Members

Author:Robert Draper

“It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.”

Way Writing Numbers Mines Narrative Endeavor Disgusting Presidency End Times Spend Time

Author:Robert Draper

“Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.”

Writing Form Acting Class Months Tired University I Realized Performing Narcolepsy

Author:William Shatner

“I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.”

Writing Causes Stuff Frank Dna Trumpets Brass

Author:Quincy Jones

“I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.”

Writing May Happens Stuff Process Enjoy My Own Collaboration

Author:Oren Moverman

“Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.”

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Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.”

Feels Writing Firsts Stills Records

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.”

People Ifs Writing Grows Audience Doors

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.”

Ifs Writing Doors

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.”

Writing Different Enjoy Style Vulnerable Vicious Different Styles

Author:Mikky Ekko

“I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.”

Feels Writing Important Enjoy Comedy I Realized Crap Writing Comedy

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.”

Way Writing Bigs Space Rooms Produce Studios Rehearsal Slick Homemade

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.”

Writing Book Fall Music Is Comic Comic Book Hobbies Writing Music Falling Off

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.”

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Author:Scott Glenn

“I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.”

Writing Firsts Song Process My Own First Time Albums I Realized Learning Process Really Happy

Author:Tove Styrke

“I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a lyric that sounds nice in that line - that's not very tricky - but it's a different thing to write something that sounds nice and actually comes from someplace real.”

Writing Different Real Wanted Stuff Sound Lines Levels Nice One Thing Different Things Tricky

Author:Tove Styrke

“I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Littles Has Beens Made Character Film Novel Projects Exciting Casts Boring Being True Essays Expanding

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out of necessity. I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. I just thought, "Well, maybe I'll do it one day just for the hell of it and see if it works."”

Ifs Writing Wells Ideas Jobs Actors Fun Hell Mines Becoming One Day Ambition

Author:Glenn Howerton

“You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I think maybe I could add this here, add that there." But I find that I write just as well for the other characters as I do for myself. I think.”

Thinking Writing Wells Character Might Degrees Responsible Add Finals Scripts

Author:Charlie Day

“I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.”

Feels Writing Years Together Enjoy Acting Skills Majority Valuable Tragic Editing Shocking Grownups

Author:Charlie Day

“Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.”

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Author:Charlie Day

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