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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Acts Bend Change Each
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Big Hoax Life My Life
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I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

About British Designers Going
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Hope Today Tomorrow Writing
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality Confuse Never Aim
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Believe Standard Double Often
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If you wish to be a writer, write.

Wish Write Writer You
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I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

I Think Magical Marriage Most
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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

Constitution Force Oldest Out
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I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Everything Just Paint
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I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Also Learn Novel Play
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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Act Around Different Different Ideas
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Art Done Gone Harry
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Events Way Sometimes
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

About Creativity Nemy Everything
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Angel Devils Must Print
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Like Nothing Pile Stinks
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Born Business How Learn
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Because Critics God Like
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Sing Song That Have
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Bad By The Time Did Get
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
Incredibly Job Lonely Writing
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Act Faith Grammar Trick
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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