Eugene Ormandy Quotes
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.
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Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.
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I was talking to Cecil Castellucci, who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!
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All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
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“When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”
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We know God well, we don't fear dying but we fear only standing in front of God. but as we are sure we are on the right way, there is no problem.
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He wrote the future onto my face with his lips.
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Everything happens for a reason, I trust that it will be for the better. Sometimes life works out in ways we can't comprehend, but all we can do is react to what happens to us in the right way.
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In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
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I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
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The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
