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I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
DAVID ALLAN COE I've always written down how I feel.
ADELE My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I...
BIG SMO I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible thing...
BEN ELTON I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
TEA OBREHT Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'...
KRISTEN STEWART I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better ...
KENDRICK LAMAR I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wond...
BRITTANY BOWE I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
T. C. BOYLE I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think ...
JAKOB DYLAN I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
DAN WAKEFIELD I've written about superheroes. I've written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being c...
JULIE KENNER I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first bo...
BEN ELTON I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
P. J. HARVEY I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON Tupac was a person who was all about love. I feel like that's me, too; that's who I've a...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it alw...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes...
SHILPA SHETTY If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I fe...
ORNETTE COLEMAN The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that&...
JACKSON BROWNE I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian...
TAO LIN I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited ab...
MARY MCCARTHY I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
KATE CHRISTENSEN I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space...
KATE BUSH I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
BENMONT TENCH I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me....
DANA FOX I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - c...
RAMI MALEK There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I alway...
DANA PERINO I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
PETER JENNINGS I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked o...
CARL HIAASEN Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's somethi...
DAVE GAHAN I just try to do the things I feel cause me success. I work hard and do the things that come natural...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanti...
DAVID HALLBERG Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action...
ROB MARSHALL When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
OSCAR WILDE Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
TAYE DIGGS I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ...
PATRICK CARMAN I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It...
ANN RULE I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
BARRY MANN I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th...
STEVE MARTIN I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
RAY DAVIES If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
LISA CHOLODENKO Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you fee...
JOHN KRASINSKI I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to...
ALEX FERGUSON The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to aff...
MELANIE CHISHOLM I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, t...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather,...
OSCAR WILDE Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accompli...
A.J. STYLES My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190...
ELLIOTT CARTER We've written something like 900 songs in all.
BARRY MANN If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more imp...
ZOE SALDANA I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has alwa...
ALFIE ALLEN Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are o...
LYNN COADY I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulge...
CHELSEA CAIN I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.
DAVID SPADE Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had pe...
HANSJORG WYSS Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told a...
BOY GEORGE I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wantin...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and t...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.
FREEMA AGYEMAN I always do something that I've never done before.
LARS VON TRIER Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and cl...
ASGHAR FARHADI I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent...
BEN CASNOCHA Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I&...
LISA LING The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories wr...
STEVE SCALISE You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that da...
RICKY WILLIAMS With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They fee...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER I've always wanted to work with Sean Connery - there's something about his style, and his ca...
KELSEY CHOW Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather,...
OSCAR WILDE To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made...
GEORGE A. ROMERO It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been s...
DAKOTA FANNING I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was alwa...
DAVID ULEVITCH Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part ...
DAVID BOWIE With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught...
PETE WENTZ As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l...
PARKER POSEY I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when somet...
NATHAN FIELDER I want something that's going to linger and stay with me and give me something to think about an...
MARK FROST The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I rem...
HANK AZARIA Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.
DANIEL JOHNSTON It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
XAVIER NIEL The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've s...
RITA DOVE I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of...
MAUREEN DOWD I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don&...
BRIE LARSON I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power w...
LESLIE DEWAN Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, s...
PHILIP YANCEY I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dres...
ANNE ROBINSON I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says somethin...
SIMON MCBURNEY I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they ...
NICOLAS ROEG I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me t...
DANIEL CORMIER I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina...
EDGAR WRIGHT I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying...
HARMONY KORINE I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it do...
JOSH HUTCHERSON The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity...
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IRIS MURDOCH Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
IRIS MURDOCH Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
IRIS MURDOCH Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
IRIS MURDOCH We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
IRIS MURDOCH The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinpri...
IRIS MURDOCH We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
IRIS MURDOCH Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a cont...
IRIS MURDOCH We can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCH Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Trut...
IRIS MURDOCH Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
IRIS MURDOCH In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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IRIS MURDOCH Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
IRIS MURDOCH There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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IRIS MURDOCH A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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IRIS MURDOCH I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN