Written Quotes
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Written by a woman automatically is better.
Leslie Mann
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I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.
Tom Stoppard
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
Judith Guest
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I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia
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If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
Jim Gaffigan
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I've always written down how I feel.
Adele
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William Golding
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I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.
Mark Chesnutt
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
James Brown
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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
Henrik Ibsen
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
William Allen White
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Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.
Debby Applegate
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The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Martin Luther
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I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?
Zach Braff
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
Carol Tavris
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When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
Aurora Levins Morales
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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A writer is someone who has written something today
J. A. Jance
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William Faulkner
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If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
Joseph Haydn
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
Henry Rollins Black Flag