Nat Hentoff Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
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Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
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I have always believed that freedom of information is so vital that only the national security, not the desire of public officials or private citizens, should determine when it must be restricted.
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A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
