Written Quotes
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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.
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
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'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.
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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.
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I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
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Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.
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I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.
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I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There are a lot of new and exciting things on the horizon and the next chapter is going to be amazing.
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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.
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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
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I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
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He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.
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Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.
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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.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
