Write Quotes
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their soun.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
