Written Quotes - Page 8

• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Dad, Real, Rocks

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• I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

  Greg Iles

  Writing, Perfect, Function

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• The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

  Joichi Ito

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Loyalty, Iphone, Apples

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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• I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.

  Jamey Johnson

  Jobs, Thinking, Way

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Paris

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• Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

  Kelly Jones

  Two, Albums, Band

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• Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Class, Long

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• It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

  Louise Jameson

  Reading, Twists, Hook

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• It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Certain, Knows

  "Horns and Halos: An Interview with Neil Jordan". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Norah Jones

  Important, Said, Feels

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• No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Purpose, Reader

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  Etgar Keret

  Fun, Grateful, Writing

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

  Jon Krakauer

  Justice, Done, Pieces

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• I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

  Nicole Krauss

  Fall, Character, Solitary

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• When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Hurtful, Looks

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• Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

  Bob Kane

  Littles, Interviews, Given

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• I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

  Jon McGregor

  Knuckles, Saws, Paper

  "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

  George Orwell

  Book, People, Littles

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Rocks, Age, Shells

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• To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mean, Artist, Trying

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