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I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.
Rebel Wilson
Own
Television
About
My Own
Wrote
Australia
Very
Offers
Getting
Where
Successful
Play
Started
Monologues
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.
Richard Attenborough
Great
You
Man
Constitution
Rights
Book
Writing
Independence
Men
Think
Great Book
He
Over
Know
Involved
French
Wrote
Greatest
Commercial
American
Declaration
Century
Paine
Who
Tom
Englishman
Lived
Ever
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams
Man
Writing
Wrote
Cannot
Separated
Who
Honest
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
Todd Burpo
Truth
Son
Book
Liar
Believe
Honest Person
Tell
Exaggerated
He
Know
Wrote
Read
Knows
Because
Pastor
Forever
Person
Want
Gonna
Dad
Honest
'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear.
Tom Petty
Best
Home
Morning
Song
Down
Think
Late
Would
Piano
Had
Studio
Wrote
Accents
Been
Southern
Quite
Just
Middle
Happened
Really
Appear
Play
Early
Started
Night
Early Morning
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Woman
Guess
Indeed
Signing
Would
Poems
Wrote
Anon
Venture
Without
Often
Them
Who
Many
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
Zadie Smith
Life
Me
Religious
Joined
Write
Simpsons
Like
Wrote
Editor
Cult
Discovered
Wanted
The Simpsons
Unfortunately
Script
Kafka
Then
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'
Tom Stoppard
Love
Saying
Theatre
Free
Playwrights
Back
Email
Visit
Would
Support
Like
Announcing
Wrote
Said
Got
Were
Existence
Yes
America
Wanted
Us
Asked
England
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.
Richard Dawkins
Others
Books
Though
Written
Almost
New
Wrote
Gospels
Real
Saint
Testament
Were
New Testament
Whether
Interested
Paul
Who
Earliest
Jesus
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya Angelou
Sometimes
Finally
Worst
Some
Poetry
River
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Wrote
Got
West
Right
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner
Women
People
World
Too Many People
Random
First
Too
Filtered
Papa
Alive
OK
About
Having
Lawyers
Feel
Know
House
Wrote
Him
Passage
Am
Still
Were
Been
Surviving
Want
Wanted
Custodian
Fortune
Many
Hemingway
Now
Away
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown
History
Past
Down
Someone
Only
Wrote
Happened
Actually
When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
Aaron Sorkin
Best
Good
You
Yourself
Better
Every
Out
Pretty
Pretty Good
About
Wing
Wrote
Doing
Go
Were
West
West Wing
Going
The Hardest Thing
Being
Want
Them
Episode
Episodes
Your
Compared
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
Aaron Sorkin
Good
First
Other
Along
Couple
Wrote
First Thing
Accepted
Got
Very
Festival
The First Thing
Good Actors
Lane
Actor
Play
Thing
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
Aaron Swartz
First
Before
Think
Birth
Ran
Out
Systems
Born
Computer
Computers
Had
Head
Head Start
Particular
Wrote
Operating
Operating Systems
Around
Got
Came
Any
Just
Which
Really
Skills
Large
Company
Dad
Technical
Start
I wrote in my book, 'unPlanned,' about a church that kicked me out when they found out that I worked for Planned Parenthood. I often get questioned about that, whether I still think they made the wrong decision. My answer is a resounding 'Yes.'
Abby Johnson
Me
Book
Decision
Church
Made
Think
Resounding
Kicked
Out
About
Parenthood
Wrong
Wrong Decision
Wrote
Answer
Still
Questioned
Yes
Get
Often
Whether
Worked
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Found
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
Abel Korzeniowski
First
Piano
Piece
Wrote
Grade
For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.
Adrian Belew
Song
Example
Live
Gave
Appropriate
Similar
Developing
For Example
Talk
Wrote
Sound
After
Place
Which
Elephant
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
Adrian McKinty
Funny
Teacher
Saying
Construction
Gone
Down
Guard
Funny Things
Meeting
Characters
Jobs
Security
Postman
Eccentric
Had
New
Wrote
Always
Were
Lot
Did
York
New York
Which
Plan
Worker
Many
Things
I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.
Adriana Trigiani
Love
Time
Dramatist
Something
Directed
Put
Feet
Wrote
Because
Always
Same
Same Time
Loved
Really
Actor
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
Ajay Mehta
Sports
Human Being
Brilliant
Father
Directed
He
Performed
Academics
Wrote
His
Very
Human
Arts
Being
Regiment
Special
English
Plays
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
Al Franken
Politics
Satire
Political
Thought
Important
Books
Wrote
Policy
Because
Public
Then
Reason
Public Policy
Radio
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Al Franken
Political
Own
Out
My Own
Could
Never
Stuff
Wrote
Felt
Left
SNL
Grind
Should
Show
Beliefs
Axe
I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.
Al Gore
Love
Seven
Wrote
Years
Articles
Newspaper
Newspapers
Professionally
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
Alan Arkin
Wave
Out
He
Particle
Wrote
Up
Ended
Epitaph
Started
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
Alan Furst
Character
Conversation
Book
Three
Mysteries
Exactly
Unbelievably
Gene
Hackman
Like
Contemporary
Wrote
Looks
Amazingly
Spy
Movie
Then
Derivative
Novel
Based
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