Written Quotes
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Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
Elena Ferrante
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Interviews are written by someone else - the journalist makes the decision to add or take things away and I couldn't recognize my voice, or anything of myself in that.
Catherine Deneuve
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It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.
Anne McDonald
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Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane
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I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
Neil Farber
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I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.
Sofia Coppola
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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
Steve Porcaro
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.
Edmond Jabes
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
Dolly Parton
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To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
Stephen Henderson
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I like having written better than I like having acted.
Carrie Fisher
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I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly
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Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.
Charles Dickens
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Thomas Carlyle
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I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.
Sandra Bullock
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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
George Eliot
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
Norton Juster
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Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Ernest Bramah
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
Eve Bunting
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Stephen Ambrose
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
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If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.
Ricky Schroder
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner