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?"

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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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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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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• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

  Randy Wayne White
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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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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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.

  

  Umberto Eco
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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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• My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

  

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• Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.

  

  Ben Hopkins
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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

  

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• The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

  

  Donald Miller
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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?"

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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