Quotes with song-writing

Quotes 261 till 280 of 578.

  • Carol Windley It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
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  • Bebe Neuwirth It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Billy Corgan It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bill Gates It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
    Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Beth Ditto It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Barry Mann It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Christina Baldwin Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
    Christina Baldwin
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Carol Windley Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.
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  • Lord Acton Learn as much by writing as by reading.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • William Styron Let's face it, writing is hell.
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  • Lord George Byron Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • E. M. Forster Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Edna Ferber Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • George Eliot Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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