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I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated. — Paul Jacob
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw. — Jack Kerouac
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in… — George Orwell
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate… — Philip K. Chapman
Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high? — Jon Stewart
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote. — David Ogilvy
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its… — Mark Twain
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but… — Bertrand Russell
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of… — Leonard Cohen
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that… — Hal David
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning… — Kate Bush
I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do… — Debbie Harry
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would… — Carly Simon
For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8… — John Fogerty
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference! — Cab Calloway
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was… — Syd Barrett
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a… — Irving Berlin
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine… — Cole Porter
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington

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