Paper Quotes
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I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Wole Soyinka -
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Michael LeBoeuf
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
Owen Wilson -
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
Tim Gane -
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
Haruki Murakami -
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Wole Soyinka -
There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.
Brent Iverson -
I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.
Hayao Miyazaki
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When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.
Thomas Sowell -
Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.
Caryl Churchill -
A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.
Juan Felipe Herrera -
Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.
Edmund Campion -
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
Michael K. Williams
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Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
Sanya Richards-Ross -
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
Daniel Mason -
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl -
What can this piece of paper do; imagine?
Alamgir Hashmi -
I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.
Cat Deeley -
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.
Steve Carlton -
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
Eric Ambler -
No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
Ezra Pound -
The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
William Bell