George Shearing Quotes
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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.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I write in the studio.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!
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God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.
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There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
