Quotes 81 till 100 of 306.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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History is written by the victors.
Tribune, 4 februari 1944 -
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
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I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
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I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
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I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984) -
I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
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I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
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I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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