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“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
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Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
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When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
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Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
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We were looking to collaborate with someone on both those fronts [ writing and directing] and it ended up just being me… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
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