Quotes 241 till 260 of 602.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
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In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
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In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
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In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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