Wrote Quotes
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Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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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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After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; the cold style took fire, and beneath the clumsy periods welled tears.
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We actually wrote the record in and out of Canada, where we live, in sort of cottage country. ... We were at a lake, around campfires, writing music.
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When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that.
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When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
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I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
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When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.
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I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
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Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
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When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
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Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.
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Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Like even the band before Milky Chance, we always wrote in English, but it’s awesome and natural in the way that we listen to a lot of English music always more than German definitely. And it’s just kind of you do what you listen to.
