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History is written by the victors.

History Written Victors By
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Write your DREAMS down in caps lock, so when you read it, it’s loud.

Write Your dream Caps lock Read it
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History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.
Artist History Job Losers
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Be a better version of you, yourself in the old universe would be proud, rewrite your story.
Be better Your story Version Universe
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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Don't pay Any attention Write About you
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Everything starts with writing.

Everything Starts Writing
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ Improving Writings Labored
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Worth Write Reading Either
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even Law Down Ought
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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

History Intend Write Kind
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Writing Check Commitment Conversation
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Talent Book Well Always
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Would Dead Not Worth
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Shift Remember Pocket Better
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There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Always Down Song Bad
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Man Go Who Living
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Story Write Like Own
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The only person that reads the terms & conditions is the one who writes it.

Person Read Term Condition
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

People Universe Sweat Work
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.
Writing Videos Medium
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

Myself Weird Conversation Kind
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I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hide Write Climb Create
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Worth Kind Force Break
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

Writing Movie Total Dialogue
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Ultimate Lesson Just Write
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

School Write Flunked Correct
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Currency Country Understand Anti-China
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To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

About Because Better Bigger
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Clear Goal People Far
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Writer Thing Methodical You
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When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

Else Hold Life Pen
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Apartment Because Casually Cost
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Always Being Communication Could
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It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

About Around Best Environment
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