Wrote Quotes

• I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movie
  • First
  • Asked

• After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • World
  • Songwriting
  • All About That Bass

• 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!

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Person
  • Talking
  • Doom Patrol

• 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.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Influences

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Name
  • Read
  • Speed

• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Brilliant
  • Wrote
  • Grammar

• Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

  

  James Garner
  • Acting
  • Sense
  • Writer

• In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Work
  • Women
  • Claim

• If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • President
  • Wrote
  • Performed

• 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.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Heart
  • Tears
  • Wrote

• 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.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • People
  • Shakespeare
  • Wrote

• 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.

  

  Adam Gontier Three Days Grace
  • Record
  • Canada
  • Wrote

• 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.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Said
  • Memoirs
  • Snitching

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • High
  • Connection

• Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Song
  • Play
  • Wrote

• Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Wrote
  • Hits

• I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Poetry
  • Right
  • Wrote

• I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

  

  Richard Wright Pink Floyd
  • Lyrics
  • Wrote
  • Moore

• 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.

  

  Matt Hammitt Sanctus Real
  • God
  • Heart
  • Wife

• Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Artist
  • Songs
  • Wrote

• I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Wrote
  • God's Word
  • Preached

• Ron Moore. He was the guy that on our show and Deep Space Nine wrote the best Klingon episodes. He wrote great episodes in general but he wrote the best Klingon episodes. I always could tell when he was going to write a Klingon episode because he was able to grow a beard really quick and I’d see him with the beard, like a Worf-beard, and I go "Ah, Klingon episode coming up!" and he goes "Oh yeah."

  

  Michael Dorn
  • Guy
  • Grow
  • General

• Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Player
  • Movement
  • Flowers

• Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Life
  • Hero
  • Ticket

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