Ben Yagoda 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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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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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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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've always written down how I feel.
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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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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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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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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.
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Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
