Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.
— Dolly Parton
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I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
— Dolly Parton
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My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home…
— Dolly Parton
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If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
— Tom Stoppard
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I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into…
— Tom Stoppard
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I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where…
— Tom Stoppard
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I write my own tweets.
— Don Rickles
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I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big…
— Unknown Author
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
— Patrick O'Brian
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I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.
— Mary Mouser
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I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
— Art Alexakis
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When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home…
— Withered Hand
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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
— Mitch Leigh
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I need complete silence when I write.
— Chris Bohjalian
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I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
— Eleanor Catton
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I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
— Nicole Holofcener
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The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.
— Nicole Holofcener
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I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A…
— Elaine Pagels
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I was always afraid to write music.
— Dory Previn
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My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
— Jakob Dylan
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I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
— Topher Grace
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I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script…
— Wadah Khanfar
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Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to…
— Mitchel Resnick
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Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
— Christopher deCharms
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