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The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Crystal Chappell

Mistake, Character, Perfect

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They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

Crystal Chappell

Thinking, Two, People

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If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

Priyanka Chopra

Believe, Best Years Of Your Life, Careers

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I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

Sharon Creech

Reading, Writing, People

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It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

Adrian Cronauer

Mean, Blue, Essence

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We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Don Cheadle

Character, Black, Roles

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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

Elliott Carter

War, Important, World

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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

Elliott Carter

War, Nice, Lunch

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Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

Richard Selzer

Brother, Cutting, Medicine

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My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

Neve Campbell

Past, Issues, Office

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Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

Neve Campbell

Party, Television, Golden

"Neve Campbell lives out a dream with "The Company". Interview with Ben Nuckols, www.today.com. January 8, 2004.

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I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Peter Carey

Writing, Selfishness, Here And There

"An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Robert Cailliau

Names, Lines, One Line

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Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

Stanley Crouch

Writing, Thinking, Phrases

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I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Michelle Dockery

Drama, Thinking, Sound

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

Agyness Deyn

Stuff, Rubbish, Sometimes

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Anita Diament

Practice, Community, Contemporary

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Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Charles Dance

Hero, Film, Made

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Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

Charles Dance

Writing, Next Day, Conclusion

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One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Mac Davis

Song, Real, Goal

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

Cary Elwes

Character, Littles, Rooms

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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

Past, Directors, Prime

"I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

Alex Flinn

Book, Thinking, Viewpoints

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In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

Alexandra Fuller

Real, Lessons, Way

"'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. September 19, 2011.

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I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Alexandra Fuller

Book, Becoming, Wonderful

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