Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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Related I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can... ASHTON KUTCHER I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten... ZE FRANK Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you... BEN FOUNTAIN This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myse... SARA QUIN I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things a... JORDIN SPARKS Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ... KATE ATKINSON I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock centr... GARRISON KEILLOR For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... ZARA LARSSON I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in... J. K. ROWLING Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you... JACKIE COLLINS It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going o... ALANIS MORISSETTE I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... LIAM GALLAGHER If you spend too much time wondering what you're going to feel like in year five, you're not... EMILIA CLARKE I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation... BILL CALLAHAN I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... JERRY SPINELLI In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, ... PAULA FOX Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just w... JACKIE ROBINSON Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it... VALERIE BERTINELLI Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the... C. JOYBELL C. What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather st... RON RASH The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... KELSEA BALLERINI And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't di... JOHN IRVING I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where yo... CECELIA AHERN One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I... JOHN BURNSIDE Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If yo... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself... SAM DEW Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don&... JOHN IRVING There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other ha... DAVID MAMET When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the ... JOHN POMFRET I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing t... JONAH HILL Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes... ERIC BETZIG You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a... MAGGIE CAREY I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu... CAROLYN CHUTE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. ... PATRICK NESS If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Re... TERRY PRATCHETT I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing ... ASHLEE SIMPSON There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other rea... SONAKSHI SINHA But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and n... DAVID BALDACCI I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... RAY CHARLES I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is t... ASHLEE SIMPSON I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab... LOU REED I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I... NATHANIEL RICH I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi... KAMAND KOJOURI It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have ... JAMIE FOXX I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An... OPRAH WINFREY I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have... ERIN FOSTER You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' T... SABRINA LLOYD I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage ... WAKA FLOCKA FLAME I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. CARTER BURWELL Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco... GEORGE HARRISON My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, do... VICTORIA AVEYARD Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co... JAKE OWEN If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own c... DEAN KOONTZ If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. Yo... NICK FLYNN No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. ALVIN AILEY When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about... DANIELLE FISHEL It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don'... R. L. STINE My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments -... TINA TURNER I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a... KIESZA So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I ca... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be arou... ROY T. BENNETT I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a p... JACK WHITE It isn't easy, it does take an incredible amount of discipline, you don't just write just when you f... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le... MICHAEL SHANNON Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do w... DEMI LOVATO I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going thro... NIKKI SIXX I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what oth... AVRIL LAVIGNE Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not t... ROY T. BENNETT I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my wri... ERIN MORGENSTERN Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to ... DAVEED DIGGS When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Be... JULIA CAMERON Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you... BRUCE ROBINSON When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go ... KRISTIN KREUK I feel like I've been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my... EVAN ROSS I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and ... BETTY BERZON I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... BRIE LARSON My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape you... RUBEN STUDDARD Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, 'Is this really goin... KYLIE JENNER A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you&... DAVID ORTIZ I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in co... TANANARIVE DUE It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sou... SHAKIRA Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have the... ALIA BHATT If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average... DEREK WALCOTT I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to ... ZSA ZSA GABOR I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure... SAM COOKE I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of... AMY GRANT
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