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• If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

  Max Brooks

  War, Epic, Giants

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• My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Moving, Writing, Progress

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• I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

  Adam Baldwin

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

  Adam Brody

  Writing, Acting, Bad Writing

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

  Bob Barr

  Law, Challenges, Adequate

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• In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

  David Baldacci

  Guy, Thrillers, Gray Area

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• Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

  David Bowie

  Running, Writing, Doe

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.17, Melville House

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• Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Writing, Men, Arms

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• And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

  Jan Brewer

  Responsibility, People, Borders

  "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.

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• What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

  Joan Blades

  Jobs, Kids, Blue

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

  John Bercow

  Newspapers, Uninterested

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• Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

  Menachem Begin

  Country, Israel, World

  "Jimmy Carter Administration: Remarks on Visit of Prime Minister Begin of Israel". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. March 22, 1978.

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• There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

  Ronald Biggs

  Years, Paper, Rubbish

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Infancy Is, Childhood, Action

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• Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. We have a record written, so we'll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving.

  Wes Borland

  Light, Priorities, Black

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• My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

  Chris Crutcher

  Running, Book, Firsts

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• I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

  Eliza Coupe

  New York, Writing, Two

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

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• I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

  Eliza Coupe

  Hbo, Gone, Lilies

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

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• It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.

  Kim Coates

  Character, Dark, Boys

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• We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Beach, Growing Up, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

  Alex Chilton

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

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• It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

  Ally Carter

  Real, Believe, Book

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• Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

  Ally Carter

  Notebook, House, Parent

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• I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, People, Needs

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• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, People

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