Written Quotes - Page 10

• The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

  James Lafferty

  Stories, Half, Written Word

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• What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

  Trevor Nunn

  Humility, Play, People

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• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  Tamora Pierce

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

  Gordon Parks

  Writing, Years, Two

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• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  Hunter Parrish

  Song, Chorus, Verses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Novel, Convince

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• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Russell Pearce

  Silly, Agreement, Promise

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• I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Firsts, Film

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• There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Way, Streaming

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• The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Wire, Fans

  "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008.

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• Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  Ian Rankin

  Dad, Reading, Home

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

  Amy Ray

  Book, Down And, Strikes

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

  David Rubenstein

  College, Letters, Students

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• Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Thinking, Scene, Wells

  "Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 07, 2012.

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• I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  Sally Ride

  Television, Made, Memoir

  "A Conversation With Sally Ride; Painful Questions From an Ex-astronaut" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2003.

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• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Graphic Novels, Novel

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• But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

  Ali Smith

  Style, Ingredients, Lists

  Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Pilots, Way, Madly In Love

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

  Anton Seidl

  Real, Book, Might

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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• Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

  Emeli Sande

  Artist, Thinking, Labels

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