I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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Related 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 I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX 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 I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha... MARTIN GORE 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 don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o... ELMORE LEONARD My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those thing... ANDY KINDLER You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&... DONALD DRIVER If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful a... NGAIO MARSH Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write somethi... GEORGE GERSHWIN I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel... A. N. WILSON 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 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 I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and... AMY WINEHOUSE I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't li... ESTELLE FANTA SWARAY I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that'... HALEY REINHART I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that... EMILY MORTIMER It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. D. B. SWEENEY Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so ... KHALED HOSSEINI I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... LIAM GALLAGHER When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breat... WILLIE NELSON I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't... RASHIDA JONES I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I ... BENJAMIN BRATT 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 tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make ... JOE MENO It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is go... THOMAS RHETT I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which ... WALTER MOSLEY The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you wh... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ... AUGUST WILSON The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I r... BOBBY BOWDEN I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it... EARTHA KITT I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'... NATE LOWMAN Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I... KATHERINE KELLY You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harr... CASSANDRA CLARE If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you... DOROTHY STRATTEN I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... TERRY WOGAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a gr... TAYLOR HAWKINS 'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female box... RICHARD MATHESON There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force ... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was rais... KATEE SACKHOFF Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don'... ETTA JAMES Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found ... ERIC KANDEL There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ... WALTER BECKER I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... WENDY COPE Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidenc... KATE VOEGELE It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. D... ERIC IDLE I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'... CARLOS SANTANA You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next... DAN MILLMAN You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don'... HARRY BROWNE I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game - you kno... STEVEN ADAMS There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog... MATTHEW MODINE Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort ... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know ... ZENDAYA I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when ... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half o... DAMON LINDELOF Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. ANDY WARHOL I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had... RINGO STARR The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you ha... RACHEL BLOOM If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've g... EWAN MCGREGOR As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wro... NAOMI KLEIN I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. I... SIGOURNEY WEAVER A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... ED SHEERAN I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parkin... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the... AGYNESS DEYN I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in ... JENNY LEWIS People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have th... MARTHA KELLY I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v... CHARLES SOULE I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre... ALISON SWEENEY You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demora... PAUL AUSTER There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; alway... MCKAYLA MARONEY I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone w... HARRY STYLES As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... DANIEL RADCLIFFE You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinar... JOAN ARMATRADING He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Denn... NATHAN LANE I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC bec... ERYKAH BADU
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SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h... J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma... J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow. J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything. J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin... J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ... J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp... J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e... J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe... J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o... J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it? J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r... J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ... J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s... J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse... J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou... J. D. VANCE Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. SALINGER We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere... J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio... J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev... J. D. VANCE I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr... J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo... J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. J. D. SALINGER Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac... J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. J. D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. J. D. SALINGER I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa... J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe... J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif... J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ... J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ... J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme... J. D. VANCE Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello. J. D. SALINGER