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I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really… — Kevin Smith
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster,… — Wentworth Miller
Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written… — Don Henley
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come… — Vera Pavlova
With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air. — Robert Ringer
What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked.… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us. — Barack Obama
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant… — Charles Darwin
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit… — David D. Burns
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If… — Saint Augustine
That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation… — Rosita Forbes
Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to… — Suzy Kassem
The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a… — Patrick Carney
Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft... — Will Self
When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. — Donald Miller
Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write… — Eugene Schwartz
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason
It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down. — Philip Glass
The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues. — Judah Smith
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. — Rose Tremain
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson
Poetry must be as well written as prose. — Ezra Pound
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in… — Joanna Southcott
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. — Nora Roberts

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