Famous Quotes: Write

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
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After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.
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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
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I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.
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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
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I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
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Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
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