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• Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  Rachel Gibson

  Book, Order, Three

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• I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

  Robert M. Gates

  Wish, Way, Constitution

  "Interview with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2010.

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• I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

  Tom Glazer

  Years, Special, Serious

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• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Long, Goal

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

  Marya Hornbacher

  Teaching, Writing, Creative Nonfiction

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• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  Adam Hamilton

  Light, Critical, Learning To Read

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Abc's, Add, Dots

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• From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Marvin Hamlisch (1992). “The Way I was”, Scribner

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• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Dad, Real, Rocks

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• I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

  Greg Iles

  Writing, Perfect, Function

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Paris

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• Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

  Kelly Jones

  Two, Albums, Band

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• It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

  Louise Jameson

  Reading, Twists, Hook

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• It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Certain, Knows

  "Horns and Halos: An Interview with Neil Jordan". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  Etgar Keret

  Fun, Grateful, Writing

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• Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

  Jon Krakauer

  Justice, Done, Pieces

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• I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

  Nicole Krauss

  Fall, Character, Solitary

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• I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

  Jon McGregor

  Knuckles, Saws, Paper

  "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Rocks, Age, Shells

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• To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mean, Artist, Trying

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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  Gary Kemp

  Lying, Reading, May

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• The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Believe, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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