Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by…
— Wole Soyinka
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I went to college at NYU for acting, since acting was my dream from very young. I did a lot of hip-hop courses while I…
— Gina Rodriguez
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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
— Al Madrigal
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I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.
— Jessica Williams
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People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.
— Mick Jones
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Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
— Richard Avedon
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I write about living, not dying.
— John Diamond
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I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started…
— Kyle Dunnigan
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When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them against the shooting…
— Gina Bellman
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing…
— Ashley Monroe
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I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
— Cass McCombs
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I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.
— Unknown Author
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The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can…
— Tommy Chong
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I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.
— Matthew Weiner
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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
— Andre Previn
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
— Britt Daniel
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I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write…
— Christopher Koch
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I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
— Graeme Simsion
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about…
— Aminatta Forna
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When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
— Jesse Harris
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I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of…
— Jason Calacanis
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and…
— Eddie Trunk
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or…
— Alfred Nobel
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all…
— Carine Roitfeld
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