Write Your Own Quotes

• Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

  Jim Henson

  Life, Motivational, Believe

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• There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

  William Golding

  Book, Writing

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• If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Book, Writing

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary.  In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

  David Hayden

  Lying, Writing, Humility

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  Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Writing, Pyramids

  Song: HiiiiPoWeR, Album: Section 80

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• If it's not happening, write your own thing!

  Molly Shannon

  Writing, Happenings, Ifs

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

  Ann Rule

  Book, Writing, Expression

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• You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.

  Asher Roth

  Writing, Rapper, Names

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.

  Nina Conti

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, People, Reviews

  "Programmers At Work". programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, Want, Opinion

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• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

  Patricia Hampl

  Book, Writing, Taste

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• Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

  Herb Brooks

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

  Mindy Kaling

  Graduation, Writing, Destiny

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.87, Crown/Archetype

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• One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

  Chris Isaak

  Writing, Worry, Musician

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• Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Being Yourself, Writing, Mean

  "The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz and Janet Mills, 2009.

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• To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit of the occasion? Do you in quiet moments ponder it? Does Karl G.Maeser's phrase, "paragraphs from the book of our possibilities" rest upon you with a sense of mission so that, as President Heber J.Grant exemplified, "you "dream nobly and manfully" and prepare ceaselessly? Do you ever think of Heber C.Kimball's faith that you can "write your own patriarchal blessing" under inspiration, for, saith the Lord, "No good thing will I withhold...

  Truman G. Madsen

  Dream, Book, Inspiration

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• When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

  Kerry Washington

  Writing, People, Choices

  "Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches" by Vi-An Nguyen, parade.com. May 20, 2013.

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• If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Stories, Ifs

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• I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "'Fifty Shades of Grey' shines light on erotic fan fiction" By Stephanie Goldberg, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Improvise.  Write your own damn story.

  Eric Lange

  Writing, Stories, Damn

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• A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Writing, Ideas

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• If you don't like my book, write your own.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Book, Writing, Ifs

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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