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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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