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• How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.

  Marvin Minsky

  Book, Intelligent, Thinking

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• There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Taken, Years

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• Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Son, Men, Class

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• I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Brother, War

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• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Pain, Writing, Joy

  "The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.

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• I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.

  August Wilson

  Creativity, Thinking, Input

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• You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique
  potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Unique, Joy, Done

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Silence, Mind

  "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.

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• Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mind, Vitality, Dull

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

  George Steiner

  Book, Worthwhile, Committees

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

  George Steiner

  Said, Consequence

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.59, Faber & Faber

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• It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Book, Law, Would Be

  "Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Browning, 310 U.S. 362". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 20, 1940.

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• Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

  Felix Frankfurter

  Sports, Wind, Doctrine

  "West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 14, 1943.

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• Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Years, Mind

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Character, Mean, Scripts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mom, Years, Psychics

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Facts, Matter, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.

  Ricky Gervais

  Book, Ideas, Firsts

  Interview with Scott Gordon, tv.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

  Charlie Day

  People, Collaboration, Know How

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sweat, Four, Bullets

  Source: content.time.com

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• I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.

  David Byrne

  Song, Beats, Chords

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.

  David Byrne

  Mean, Feelings, Records

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

  Vince Gilligan

  Honesty, Writing, Television

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

  David Gelernter

  Book, Style, Lectures

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, Reading, First Love

  Source: collider.com

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