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  • Buck Owens I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • James Brown I've outdone anyone you can name: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Harry Weinberger If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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  • Peter Carey If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barbara Demick In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • A. E. van Vogt It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Beth Henley It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Clarendon Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Anne Stevenson My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bruce Lipton One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Cat Stevens Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Carl Safina Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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