Ozzy Osbourne Quotes
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"
Quotes to Explore
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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I started writing songs at age 15.
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I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.
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I think I'm genuinely sincere, and that's what hopefully makes it work. I take that very seriously when I'm writing.
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My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
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Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.
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I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"
