Write Quotes
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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Write whatever you like!
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
