Written Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.

  Ari Graynor

  Stupid, Pilots, I Realized

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

  Tony Gilroy

  Careers, Scripts, Bunch

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

  Diana Gabaldon

  New York, Romance, Enough

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• What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Patterns, Chaos

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Accidental Tourist / Diana Gabaldon reveals the inspiration for her popular time-travel series" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

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• I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Eight, Years

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• I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

  Krista Allen

  Teacher, Texas, People

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• Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

  Lynn Abbey

  Creating, Half, Stories

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• In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

  Simon Armitage

  Moving, Found, Engaged

  "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.

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• I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

  Michael Ealy

  Want, Scripts, Speak

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• I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Past, Thinking

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• Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

  Bram Cohen

  Writing, Quality, Idiot

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