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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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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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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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'
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Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
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The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
