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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we… — Heinz Pagels
Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the… — Alan K. Simpson
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn… — Saint Augustine
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. — David Ben-Gurion
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could… — Eldridge Cleaver
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. — Gary Oldman
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I… — Jesse Eisenberg
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician,… — Chris Isaak
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think. — Avril Lavigne
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be… — Winston Churchill
No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as fresh. But he… — Rosser Reeves
One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never… — Michael Bywater
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. — Artie Shaw
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that… — George Albert Wells
It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world… — Erica Packer
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . .… — William Graham Sumner
I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them… — Anna Kournikova

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