Michael Caine Quotes
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

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I love writing songs.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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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.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.
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Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.
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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.
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Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
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The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
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Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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I don't write romance novels.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.