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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
Zadie Smith
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
Rachel Roy
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
Joanne Rowling
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
Larry Wilmore
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
Zachery Ty Bryan
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
Flume
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
Patrick Fugit
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
Hans Rosling
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
Gary Herbert
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I'm a very competitive person.
Fabrice Muamba
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
Natasha Little
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I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
Michael Jackson
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That hope that was given, that joy that was given, the millions of blessings and favor. Whatever I needed, He provided. Whatever I wanted, He said yes to it many times; and that made me know that I was serving the right person and that I was on the right track.
Ricky Dillard
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Nut up and flipped in, than slipped the clip in, mistakin' the bloody victims.
Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
Erica Jong
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Write to one person, not a million.
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