Zakk Wylde quote: "If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume."

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to w...
ADAM SCHLESINGER

I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.
DIMEBAG DARRELL

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in co...
TANANARIVE DUE

I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a...
TOM PETTY

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write somethi...
LAUREN MILLER

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so muc...
JANE WIEDLIN

I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped...
JOHN DARNIELLE

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I&...
YAPHET KOTTO

On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to ...
JIMMY FALLON

I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any...
COREY TAYLOR

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr...
GAIL DEVERS

I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT

If you behind me, I'm not going to look back and try and figure out what you're doing behind...
FUTURE

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'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to...
SHARON JONES

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's w...
JASON ROBERT BROWN

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good a...
ROBERT KNEPPER

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better...
BRIAN WILSON

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather st...
RON RASH

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to h...
BETTY CARTER

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling...
NAT KING COLE

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven&#...
JIMMY PAGE

If I'm thinking about a particular injury, then I'm already a step behind. If I'm so gun...
CAM NEWTON

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y...
JAY-Z

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's wri...
TOM STOPPARD

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in &#...
AMY POEHLER

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can w...
MATTHEW QUICK

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
CHARLES STROSS

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down ...
MIRANDA LAMBERT

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L...
JUDITH JAMISON

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ...
EMILY GIFFIN

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going ...
KRISTEN STEWART

If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ...
ASTRO

If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my Go...
JOHN MCENROE

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui...
KINA GRANNIS

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th...
HARRY STYLES

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
OTIS RUSH

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you&#...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going ...
DARREN CRISS

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested i...
GEORGE SAUNDERS

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was...
ANDY WARHOL

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au...
ADAM PALLY

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think...
HAYLEY HASSELHOFF

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others...
CECELIA AHERN

If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm goin...
JON SEDA

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I...
WALTER MOSLEY

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik...
JOY FIELDING

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it'...
BELLA HADID

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I...
EDIE FALCO

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!
NIGEL HAMILTON

If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apoll...
FRANK VINCENT

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ...
JUDY BLUME

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm ...
NICOLE KIDMAN

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not ...
RANDY NEWMAN

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What&#...
DUFF GOLDMAN

I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm s...
NATALIA TENA

I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a differ...
ANDREW SCOTT

For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lo...
JO NESBO

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t...
ALBERTO MORAVIA

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's ...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan...
HALSEY

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You...
BJORN ULVAEUS

If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

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