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ANDREW TO I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the... SPIKE JONZE I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don... DANNEL MALLOY DAVID OGILVY MEL GIBSON I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don&#... KEITH EMERSON BRIE LARSON 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 GABRIEL BYRNE I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said ... MARK VALLEY BEN E. KING I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in ... JENNY LEWIS I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how... AMBER ROSE STEPHEN HAWKING FRANK DILLANE CHANTAL SUTHERLAND FRAN TARKENTON MERYL STREEP I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't ha... NEIL CAVUTO There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p... JENNIFER COOLIDGE MIRANDA JULY
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I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it. 
I don't know how to write love letters. 
I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn&... 
I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it. 
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... 
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... 
I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly. 
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An... 
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman... 
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... 
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... 
I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to app... 
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... 
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... 
I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn... 
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big d... 
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ... 
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... 
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... 
I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... 
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo... 
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and ... 
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved b... 
It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I ... 
I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... 
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. 
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them... 
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about. 
If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... 
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't... 
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. 
I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a l... 
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ... 
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don&#... 
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. 
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... 
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'... 
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it... 
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell ... 
It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistake... 
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... 
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali... 
Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write ou... 
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write t... 
I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet... 
I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parkin... 
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ... 
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many ... 
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin... 
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. 
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. 
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.