I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
Mitch Albom
Recitation: by Male by Female
I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.
Jenny Zhang
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When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.
Maurice Gibb
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Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
Jeff Bridges
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There's nothing quite like a World Cup.
Michael Owen
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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux
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The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.
Jordan Peele
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I don't think we ever know 100 percent of a person, even ourselves, but I think in families, you get closer to people's secrets and people's darkness - and their light, the full contrast of a person.
Derek Cianfrance
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I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.
Chris Stapleton
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Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
Conan O'Brien
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Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
Bruce Smith
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I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
William Godwin
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We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.
Pim Fortuyn
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