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I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. But during… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
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Themes don't change very much in story telling, and I think each writer has his or her own territory; however, I think… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
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Someone once busted on me on facebook for liking one of my own posts. Why the hell would I have posted it… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
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Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement,… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
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Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
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You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
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