I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
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It took me some time to realize television, for someone like me, was the perfect medium. I like to produce, I like… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself -… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I… — Arthur Godfrey Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs.… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga… — Mel White Copy Share Image
I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“We all write our autobiographies long before we live our lives. Sure, we make some edits and revisions along the way, but… — Tim Chaddick Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“You are a coward.” Stephen headed for the door. “If you lose her, it won’t be because of this citizenship writ or… — Rachel Hauck Copy Share Image
Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most striking feature of the west European Upper Palaeolithic, one on which many writers comment, is a sharp increase in… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“I was writing a poem, and suddenly, I fell asleep on a page. I was dreaming of you. You were talking to… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
“tity of her priesthood; 20 but she has never condi tioned the validity of a Sacrament on the moral worthiness of the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way.… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing… — John Mark McMillan Copy Share Image
“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My goal from the outset was to write a novel that perfectly balanced crime and romance. It’s not unusual to see detectives… — C.R. Lemons Copy Share Image
I like Twitter more than Facebook. Twitter is a great way to deliver and get news. In news writing less is more… — Tom Llamas Copy Share Image
I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste.… — Mohammad Azharuddin Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Artists are nothing but expert time killers, filling up the hours by entertaining themselves. But the ones who think they're changing the… — S.P. Miskowski Copy Share Image
Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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