David Massengill Quotes
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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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 think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
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I always train 100 percent.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
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The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
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This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood has shown for both the safety of women and the rule of law.
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I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
