Halsey (Ashley Nicolette Frangipane) Quotes
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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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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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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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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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.
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I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.
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Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
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I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
