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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. Beau Willimon
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To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over. Ben Dolnick
Work You Book Think Else Exactly Someone Habits Write Written Wrong Over Doing Subject Fiction Your Chosen Right
While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past. Ben Domenech
Myself Journalist Past Has-Been One Thing More Written Am Been Than In The Past While Thing
I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with. Ben Elton
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I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great. Ben Gibbard
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I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs. Ben Gibbard
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It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,' or 'Benjamin Wittes, who wasn't even a lawyer.' Now it's just, like, 'Benjamin Wittes, who's a friend of Jim Comey's.' Benjamin Wittes
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. Bernard Cornwell
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you. Betty Wright
Time You People Song Think Rap Written Checking Know Always Done Your Last
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Beverley Nichols
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. Beverly Cleary
Hope Be Happy Happy Will Books Written Readers Go Children Lives
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college. Beverly Cleary
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I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. Bharati Mukherjee
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I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music. Bill Callahan
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When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet. Bill Callahan
Experience People Song Every Write Written Been Fill Niche Lives
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract? Bill Goldberg
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Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed. Billy Collins
Music Own Has-Been Composed Cases Poem Poems Results Had Attempts Written Put Disastrous Verbal Been Ear Set
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships. Billy Collins
War Best About Seem Invasion Poems Poets Written Countries Dictatorships Experienced Vicious Who Whose
One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man. Billy Eichner
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I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. Billy Sherwood
People Other Songs Written Lots Spectrum
Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written. Bjorn Ulvaeus
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Blaise Pascal
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I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it. Blake Bailey
Everything Out Joe Find About Writers Written Academic Wrote Read Passionate Gets Just Wants Certain Who Suddenly Why Ever
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well. Blake Jenner
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Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. Bo Bennett
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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
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