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• The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Thinking, Technology

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• A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

  Nathan Lane

  Stage, Wells, Audience

  "This Is A Very Mice Story!". Sunday Tasmanian, January 4, 1998.

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• If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

  Madeline Kahn

  Actors, Void, Scene

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• Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

  Mary MacLane

  Real, Writing, Would Be

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• One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blood, Style, Literature

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• If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays".

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• Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

  Robert P. Crease

  Book, Humanity, Important

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• Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and wonderfully well written story of one man's quest to solve a problem no one thought could be solved: the scourge of inner city gang violence This is a vitally important work that has the potential to usher in a new era in policing.

  John Seabrook

  Philosophy, Men, Crime Novels

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• Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

  Michael Moriarty

  Honesty, Language, Clarity

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• Poetry must be as well written as prose.

  Ezra Pound

  Poetry, Wells, Prose

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

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• What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

  Bryan Cranston

  Action, Shock, Wells

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2011.

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• For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to mince about was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Success, Sports, Opportunity

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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• Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Book, Knowledge, Science

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Records, Biographies

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.7

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• Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, White, Interesting

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• Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  Larry Hagman

  Reality, Thinking, Dallas

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• Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Light

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• Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.

  Samuel Barnett

  Writing, Way, Tongue

  Source: collider.com

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• Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding....being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of my book, Vagabonding, I am happy to see a well written guide done by the boyz and girl at BootsnAll

  Rolf Potts

  Girl, Real, Book

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• Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

  Luke Bryan

  Wells, Has Beens, Written

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• Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Brother, Character, Interesting

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'

  Roger Ebert

  Class, Zombie, Noses

  Roger Ebert (1996). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

  John Lithgow

  Ducks, Acting, Actors

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