Dolly Parton Quotes

I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.

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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

  Beck
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Writing
  • Being
  • Try

• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Song
  • New

• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Me
  • Kind

• You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Bad
  • Kind
  • Learn

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • City
  • Kind
  • Discovered

• I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Think
  • Song
  • Man

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Pool

• I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Writing
  • Guy

• With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Writing
  • Emotional
  • Sad

• I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Up
  • Writing
  • True

• I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • New
  • Anything
  • Technological

• I'm a pretty low key person when it comes to style, I love to be comfortable all the time. I love getting dressed up when I'm going out. But most of the time, I just like to be comfortable. It's really annoying to everyone in my life, but I love it.

  

  Bianca Lawson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Boxing
  • Eating

• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Kind