Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Billy Wilder
Blaise Pascal
Matthew Prior
Francois Rabelais
Christopher Columbus
Helen Rowland
All authors
Today's birthdays
1913 - Albert Camus
1918 - Billy Graham
1867 - Marie Curie
1969 - Bryant H. McGill
1988 - Alexandr Dolgopolov
1943 - Stephen Greenblatt
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Artist
Author
Celebrity
Chef
Athlete
Philosopher
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Wrote Quotes
Wrote Quotes
I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
Ziad Doueiri
Man
Car
Finished
Leader
September
East
Administration
About
Weeks
Wrote
Very
Sells
American
Middle
Middle East
After
American Film
Script
Used
Who
Film
Now
Based
Bombing
Two
Two Weeks
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Zoe Kazan
Class
Writing
School
Job
College
First
Year
Took
Out
Liked
Wrote
Get
Play
Before Twitter, if comedians wrote what they had for lunch on a Post-it and put it through your letterbox you wouldn't find it acceptable - but now apparently it is on Twitter.
Lee Mack
You
Before
Lunch
Twitter
Find
Through
Had
Put
Comedians
Wrote
Acceptable
Your
Apparently
Now
What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those things you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must begin with the point of truth within yourself.
John Kani
Truth
Character
You
Yourself
Othello
Back
Macbeth
Those
Must
Shakespeare
Point
He
Step
Wrote
Within
Does
Always
Begin
Arthur
Want
James
Then
Create
Miller
Things
Incorporate
I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.
Gavin O'Connor
Great
Pride
Remember
September
Rightfully
I Remember
Some
About
My Friend
Attached
Had
Over
New
Wrote
Make
Glory
Understood
Line
New Line
Friend
Get
Going
Just
Movie
After
Happened
Really
Actor
When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.
Andrew O'Hagan
Walls
Men
Danish
About
Someone
Thrillers
Mysterious
Writer
Wire
Idea
Over
Like
Wrote
Tangled
Up
Author
Getting
Barbed
Barbed Wire
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.
John Cooper Clarke
Band
Everybody
Saw
About
Poems
Poetry
Records
Wrote
Read
Said
Off
Sell
Formed
Them
Many
One thing I did was to create a Love Yourself List. I wrote down everything I like about myself, and put it on my bathroom mirror. Then I read it until I believed it. Any time I compared myself to others, and felt negative about myself, I'd go back to that list.
Lizzie Velasquez
Love
Time
Myself
Love Yourself
Yourself
Negative
Mirror
Down
Others
Back
Bathroom
Everything
One Thing
About
Put
Like
Until
Wrote
Read
Felt
Go
Did
List
Any
Then
Create
Compared
Believed
Thing
Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
D'Angelo
Me
First
Own
Fighting
Think
Sugar
I Think
Record
About
Brown
Entirety
My Own
Studio
Wrote
Majority
Bedroom
Demos
Were
Done
Just
Being
Which
Little
Producing
Richmond
Album
'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.
Dolores O'Riordan
Time
Song
First
Big
Band
Member
Joining
Never
Wrote
Linger
Big Hit
Hit
After
Youngest
Imagined
When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is There?' and it was four or five people playing missiles in a silo waiting to take off.
Robert Downey Sr.
Army
Waiting
People
Writing
Else
Imitations
Broadway
Out
Something
Take
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Missiles
Wrote
Got
Off
Five
Done
Theater
Then
Usual
Four
Started
Playing
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
Maya Angelou
Time
Myself
Thoughts
Writing
Down
Think
I Think
Worst
Would
Brother
Some
About
More
Only
Poetry
Write
Spoke
Since
Liked
Wrote
Read
West
Essays
Loved
Little
Found
By The Time
My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'
Tim O'Reilly
Work
Business
People
Down
Wrote
Model
Interesting
Interesting People
Interesting Work
Business Model
Original
Actually
Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.
Didier Deschamps
Me
You
Job
Slow
Big
Down
Add
Possession
Stripping
Slow Motion
Someone
Tackle
Something
Like
Wrote
Always
Motion
Lineup
Up
Did
Thankless
Big Screen
Screen
Automatically
Coaches
Hard
Show
Card
Players
'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.
Tim O'Brien
Work
War
Book
Own
Carried
Out
Characters
Memoir
Inside
Give
My Own
Feel
Name
Wrote
Make
Real
Labeled
Did
Fiction
Form
Use
Dedicated
Right
Things
Set
One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that. And so I wrote 'Killing Jesus' because I think I was directed to write that.
Bill O'Reilly
Believe
Think
I Think
I Believe
One-Night
Spirit
Directed
Inspiration
Write
Wrote
Catholic
Because
Woke
Up
Just
Holy
Holy Spirit
Jesus
Night
A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
La'Porsha Renae
Good
Woman
Song
Fans
Feeling
Sense
Also
Wrote
Empowered
Proud
Been
Verse
Lot
Celebrating
Which
Really
Third
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
Maya Angelou
Home
You
Angel
Thomas
Everything
Chapters
Brother
Look
Wrote
Read
Go
Go Home
Again
Whole
Ever
I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote 'Dejan is here, Dejan is there,' and they knew nothing!
Dejan Lovren
Day
Me
Tired
Every Day
Listening
Reading
Closed
Nothing
Every
Everyone
Relief
I Feel
Staying
Window
About
Knew
Feel
Wrote
Got
Leaving
Transfer
After
Liverpool
Here
It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.
Hilary Hahn
Work
Music
Me
Think
Everything
Exactly
Exactly What
Composer
Composers
Wrote
Well
Because
Been
Really
Meant
Used
Moment
Enlightening
On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
Martha Nussbaum
Culture
Law
Men
Military
Has-Been
Would
Delicacy
Tenderness
He
Since
Quakers
Wrote
Because
Greatest
George
Been
George Washington
Dominant
Famous
Public
Explaining
Them
Scruples
Require
Whole
Washington
Letter
Deserve
Ever
Serve
Conscientious
Position
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
Ursula Burns
Time
You
Bible
People
Human Being
Three
Somebody
Long
Long Time
Down
Took
Way
Paper
OK
Would
Guy
Could
Long Time Ago
Wrote
Make
Another
Said
Get
Human
Being
Wanted
Them
Then
Created
Right
Thing
Copy
I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!
Cody Simpson
Song
First
About
Putting
Wrote
Diaper
Chicken
Eight
There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And I'm like, 'For the same reason that I don't play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.' It's like, 'I'm a grown-up.' I wrote that music when I was a kid.
John Rzeznik
Music
You
People
First
Few
Kid
Those
Joe
Records
Like
Wrote
Always
Material
Dolls
Off
Same
Few People
Any
Anymore
Your
Reason
Why
Grown-Up
Play
Two
In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.
Marianne Williamson
Love
War
Change
Book
World
Poverty
First
Earth
Outer
Outer World
About
Heal
Wrote
Return
How
End
To Love
Deep
Things
Need
I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.
Yolanda King
Queen
First
About
Wrote
Course
Eight
Play
Load more quotes
No more wrote quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Also
Always
Anything