Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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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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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.
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It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
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I've had one or two personal trainers at different times - and it's expensive, first of all - but they always make me feel uncomfortable because they're jocks who just yell at you.
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Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
