Written Quotes
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I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
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The written word is everything.
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
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I love deliberately badly written books.
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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
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To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
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Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.
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I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
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What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the Cube project.
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I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.
