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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. Kurt Cobain
Me Age Mother Would Would-Be Written Encouraged Contract Artist Artistic Early Early Age
When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible. Kurt Eichenwald
Rights Matter Carried Out Magazine Minutes No-One Written Mass Over Concept Owned Bill Bill Of Rights Incomprehensible Slaughter
You could have written the biggest hit song, and all eyes are looking to you to write another one. It's not a thankless job; it's just an endless job. LP
You Eyes Song Job Looking Could Write Written Another Hit Thankless Endless Just Biggest
With Joe Walsh, that was kind of random. I'd written 'Hi-Roller Baby' for myself while I was at Island/Def Jam; literally, four years later, it got cut. Songs can be around for a long time. LP
Time Myself Random Long Long Time Baby Later Kind Joe Songs Written Around Got Years Jam Literally While Cut Four
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. Lafcadio Hearn
Work Bible Exaggeration Language Will Say Shakespeare More Written Spoken Greatest Than Influence Literature Race Much Next English English Literature Even
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. Lance Armstrong
Game Thought Down Rejection Everybody Okay Through Written Learned Prisoners Off Going Moment Illness
If there's a group of articles written about me, I can usually tell the difference if someone's writing an article and they know me from someone who doesn't know me. They're usually very different. Lane Kiffin
Me Writing Group Tell About Someone Written Know Very Article Articles Difference Different Who
I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written. Laura Amy Schlitz
Me Mind Wind Those Abandon Constantly Haunt Week Written Picking Like Ideas Coming Lot Up Heat Getting After Flavors Low Them Keep Two
I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. Laura Hillenbrand
Me Man Book Confused Single No Idea About Proposal Had Written Knew Idea How Making Occurred Line Anything Story Even Film
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written. Laura Wade
You People Joke Laugh Admit Rather Thrill Dirty Written
Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness. Lauren Groff
Death War Best Sometimes Seen Corner Tremendous Immense Eye Only Written Lightness Like Aging Things
When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either? Lauren Mayberry
Myself Writing Believe Else Out Something Written Because How Expect Trying Anyone Anyone Else Either Then Figure
Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes. Lauren Mayberry
You Girl Singing Idiot Shoes Else Tell Wears Some Someone Never Songs Written Wanted Stages Producers Who Even Early Thinks Two
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine. Laurence Housman
Best Happy Better Will Others Mine Francis Remain Written Advantage Subject Hit Them Might Moment Series Chance Plays
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. Laurie Anderson
Pretty About Something Written Primordial Snakes Lot
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. Laurie Anderson
Book Words First Few Books Mystery No Words Had Written Pictures Wrote Children Story Package
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person. Laurie Graham
Work First Books Characters Telling Voice Written Idea Steps First-Person Hear Person Going Happened Story Then Forward Her
I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention. Laurie Halse Anderson
Car Dinner Practice Down Every Back Location Airport Kids Table Classrooms Kitchen Kitchen Table Had Written Attention Supposed Were Trains Front Closet Break While Soccer Room Paying Seat Imaginable Basketball
Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done. Lawrence Blume
Gone Abandoned Written Over Come Were Years Get Done Screenplays Process Hollywood Producers Hard Many Things
I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained. Lawrence Osborne
World Simplicity Teenager Dread Shabby Brought Colonial Written Obsessed Over Read Without Being Your Desert Right Consciousness
When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written. Lee Gutkind
Work World Three First Important Research Finally Has-Been Introduce Students Written Perhaps Most Talk Call Real Been Review Real World Process Then Exploration
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things. Lee Hall
Funny Time Best Me You Think Unless Find About Rather Written Bleak Comic Nonsense Sake Been Tragic Frivolous Same Just Same Time Being Being Funny Really Serious Deeply Things Plays
In 'W,' I did not change a word in the script. I have never spoken this much in other series. I just stick to whatever is written. I always carry the script with me and read it before I sleep. Lee Jong-suk
Me Change Word Before Whatever Other Carry Never Written Spoken Read Stick Always Did Just Script Much Series Sleep
I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room. Lee Ranaldo
Time Best Together Youth Writing Own Down Group Setting Our Our Time Member Outlet My Own Cassette Main Songs Written Songwriting Sonic Sonic Youth Putting Most Sort Were Been Years Years And Years Tapes Forever Getting Where Room Them Sketches Us Four
I wish that I'd written John Lennon's 'Imagine.' Lee Ryan
Wish John Written Lennon Imagine
The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and then you see those decisions through to the end. Leigh Whannell
Good You Writing Those See About Directing Through Good Thing Written Head End Screenplay Decisions Then Your Film Thing
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