Wrote Quotes
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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“When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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It is to me, obvious in the memo that I wrote to Fred Fielding that it was about whether or not it's good to have more lawyers. Whether they were from homemakers, from plumbers, from artists or truck drivers had nothing to do with it.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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I was talking to Cecil Castellucci, who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
