Written Quotes
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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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Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
Ellie Goulding
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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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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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I've always written down how I feel.
Adele
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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 would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
William Allen White
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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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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
Carol Tavris
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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
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Stephen Sondheim
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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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While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought was really beautifully written, it doesn't really need a movie because it is a movie. So I think you need a unique game - you either need an incredibly talented writer and director to come in and put together an amazing vision, or you need a game like Metal Gear, which is very cinematic, has a huge amount of history behind it, but whose cinematic experience is very different from what you'd get in a theater.
David Hayter
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Martin Luther
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Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
Michael Faraday
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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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A writer is someone who has written something today
J. A. Jance
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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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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
Tom Stoppard
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The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
Cornelius Plantinga
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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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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln
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The treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written.
G.A. Henty