Ben Yagoda Quotes

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• 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.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
  • Written

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• 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.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• '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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Letter

• Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

  

  A. James Clark
  • English
  • Rome
  • Letter

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Advice
  • Promise

• 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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Write

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• 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.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• 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.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• I've always written down how I feel.

  

  Adele
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Written

• I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Alone

• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Way
  • Written

• Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Should
  • Written

• Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Wish
  • Dreams
  • Letter

• Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • History
  • Today

• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Quality

• The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Order

• It's really one-stop shopping for the music fan.

  

  Bradley Horowitz
  • Shopping
  • Music Fan

• I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

  

  Ben Yagoda
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