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ELAINE STRITCH Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
DAVID BOWIE I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you ...
PAULY SHORE I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don&#...
IMELDA STAUNTON I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to w...
PAUL S. KEMP If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
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BEBE REXHA I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fu...
DAVE CHAPPELLE Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu...
JODI PICOULT I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
EDDIE CAMPBELL My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probab...
LAURA BENANTI I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight', ...
ROBERT PATTINSON I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.
ALICE TEMPERLEY As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want ...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure o...
BEBE REXHA I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa...
J. D. SOUTHER I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly writ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
ALBERT KING If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved drib...
RONALDINHO I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in ...
TASLIMA NASRIN No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
BERNADETTE PETERS I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso...
PATRICK DUFFY I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
GARRY WILLS I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every bo...
SUE GRAFTON I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want ...
ROBERT HUNTER Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.
CRAIG FERGUSON I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when the...
VANESSA MARCIL In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an ab...
JANET JACKSON I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
RANBIR KAPOOR I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!
ESAI MORALES I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacatio...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
BILL BRUFORD I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I d...
MEG WHITE Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your o...
LISA CHOLODENKO At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do ...
JESSICA PARE I really don't want to be a hunk.
JOHN MAYER I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!
BROOKE BURKE I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
STEVE BUSCEMI It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when...
DAVID A. R. WHITE Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I...
CHINUA ACHEBE I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ...
GERRY COONEY In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth....
JOHN OLIVER My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo...
DAVID LEVITHAN I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book ...
DAN BROWN I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
TOM BAKER I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I...
BILLY CONNOLLY I really love my True Match concealer: it is great if you just want to cover some spots, and you don...
CASSADEE POPE I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo...
BILLY COLLINS I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to ...
JACOB DEGROM I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the firs...
ALLEN IVERSON I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't ...
C. K. WILLIAMS The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't wan...
EDWARD FELTEN I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle t...
RONDA ROUSEY I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'...
ASHTON KUTCHER I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
MARJANE SATRAPI If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyon...
TYLER PERRY You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a...
ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it...
CANDACE BUSHNELL It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just...
DAN BROWN I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagis...
MAXINE KUMIN It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdot...
T. J. MILLER If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh ...
NANCY ALLEN I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze ...
ERIN O'CONNOR I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change i...
GEORGINA BLOOMBERG I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.
DAVID MCCALLUM I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write i...
LYDIA MILLET Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals unt...
BRUCE GREENWOOD What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.
SARAH SUTTON I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&...
LIAM GALLAGHER I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look...
CASEY STONER I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I ca...
PATRICK CARNEY I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes...
ARUNDHATI ROY When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin...
MIRANDA JULY If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone...
ROBERT B. PARKER I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show&...
BRIAN POSEHN I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do ...
JACQUELINE BISSET I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them...
ALAN JACKSON I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I...
HIROMI UEHARA You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the ...
ERIC HEIDEN I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of ...
ERIC ANDRE I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to...
JEAN-LUC GODARD Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's gr...
BERNADETTE PETERS I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night...
MICHAEL DIRDA I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't...
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STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Enjoy it. Because it's happening.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY This moment will just be another story someday.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY