Written Quotes
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The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
Julia Barr
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You're every love song ever written.
Rod Stewart
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It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
Anthony Anderson
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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.
Jack White The White Stripes
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'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.
Ravyn Lenae
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
Edouard Glissant
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
Wei Jingsheng
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Scott Cohen
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Thomas Aquinas
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History is not what happened but what is written down
Kathleen McGowan
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Blaise Pascal
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
Conn Iggulden
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Mike Gordon
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I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.
Richard Prince
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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Tony Gilroy
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
Lao Tzu
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I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.
Ewan McGregor