Macy Gray Quotes
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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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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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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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 write romance because I love to read romance.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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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 just write mechanical things.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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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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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
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Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
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Right now, we don't have any leadership from White House to try to understand what our principal foreign adversary was doing to interfere with our elections, to, in effect, destabilize our democracy. So, I think this is - this should be of interest to any American.
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I write in the studio.
