Written Quotes
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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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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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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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Written by a woman automatically is better.
Leslie Mann
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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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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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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 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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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'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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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
Michael Faraday
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Martin Luther
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I've always written down how I feel.
Adele
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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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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
William Allen White
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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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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
Carol Tavris
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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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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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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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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Stephen Sondheim
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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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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
Tom Stoppard