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“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

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Book:Planet of the Apes

Source: Planet of the Apes

“As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.”

Giving Able Can Do Sin Written Manuals Alms Manual Work

Author:Poemen

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.”

Knows Way Should Writing Kind May Has Beens Art Facts Able Written Influence Conscious Art Is Should Have Mad Subtle Significance Followers Overwhelming Aesthetic Should Have Been Schoenberg

Author:Maurice Ravel

“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.”

Believe Art Play Use Able Actors I Believe Written Creating I Believe In Theatre Works Of Art Playwriting

Book:On the Art of the Theatre

Source: On the Art of the Theatre

“I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.”

Seems Able Known Written Team Program Programming Location Glitches

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.”

Should Matter Facts Able Language Community Quality Written Projects Smart Merit Relative You Choose Programmers Hackers Java Python

Author:Philip Greenspun

“It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.”

Years Book Enough Able Lasts Left Language Mistake Written Painful Conclusion Last Year Enough Time Gloomy Tuesday My Birthday Realisation Time Left

Author:Daniel Finkelstein

“A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.”

World Should Self Stories Eye Able Lasts Next Written Week Subjects Red Window Letters Should Have Manage Staring Going Away Self Control Next Week Moths Red Eye

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.”

Thinking Way Writing Enough Able Hate Process Pleasure Roles Focus Written Losing Aim Conquer Good Enough Enthusiastic Never Good Enough

Author:Julie Andrews

“I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.”

Country Play Shows Able Together Fun Written Things To Do Elsewhere Fun Things

Author:Oscar Isaac

“What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.”

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Author:Linda Sue Park

“I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.”

Years Book Enough Able Written Bed Wicked Childrens Book

Author:Gregory Maguire

“I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.”

People Feels Able Past Song Left Environment Written Lovers Comfortable Admire Crafts Accomplished Songwriting Great Love Past And Present Great Lovers

Author:John Fogerty

“The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.”

Needs Writing Mind Able Written Judging Type Fingers Starting Editing Laptops

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.”

Ifs Character Able Actors Rooms Written Mediums Rhythm Alternatives

Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.”

“No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.”

Thinking Feels Wells Persons Made Matter Play Whole Character Able Film Individual Stuff Powerful Roles Written Honest No Matter What All Kinds Well Written Really Powerful

Author:Ellen Page

“You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there. It's very easy to recall and remember because it's written so well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Able Remember Easy Written Mouths Coming Out Recalls Well Written

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Persons Matter Able Language Easy Natural Written Trouble Letters Regard Grammar

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.”

“I think it's important to know how to free in case you fall of what you've written, you can be able to keep going with your rhymes. I think it's also good for the culture of emceeing. It's about microphones and about controlling the crowd; it's about rocking the party.”

Thinking Knows Important Able Fall Culture Party Cases Know How Written Crowds Keep Going Rhyme Microphones

Author:Kurupt

“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.”

Ifs Able Night Brain Wonder Morning Focus Written Middle Late Distraction Afternoon Worthwhile

Author:Scott Adams

“When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first time I was behind the wheel of a car, when I was a kid, it kind of freaked me out. I've always been a very anxious student of anything, and so not being able to process things quickly enough, feeling overwhelmed, I just got freaked out and so I just never tried again.”

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Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Important Hard Able Song Stuff Written Singing Relate

Author:Cody Simpson

“I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.”

Men Want Should Writing Would Be Able Three Speak Language Wish Written Grants Bottles Should I Resumes My Wish Genies Three Wishes

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.”

Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

“I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."”

Thinking Looks Said Play Able Left Written Changed Scripts Casts Unlikely Mike Hbo

Author:Colin Callender

“Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.”

Able Written Air Software

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.”

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Author:William Lane Craig

“As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.”

Way Kids Able Song Written Band My Favorite Jealous Daydreaming Favorite Bands

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this fierce desire to protect this book that she had written. At that time, I read the second book, in manuscript form, and so I saw where she was going with the series. I was able to convince Suzanne [Collins] to trust me with the books.”

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Author:Nina Jacobson

“I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.”

People Knows Able Winning Written Movement Speakers Globes Great Writers Written Word Great Speakers

Book:Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

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