Write Quotes
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
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My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
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The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.
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Write to one person, not a million.
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I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
