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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is rea... NIKKI SIXX 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 I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought ... HUGH JACKMAN If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sou... STEPHEN SONDHEIM I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into ... CARRIE FISHER There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - th... RUTH OZEKI On 'Awake,' we would take a couple hours per scene. Whereas on 'Anger Management,' w... DANIELA BOBADILLA When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song ... G-EAZY Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you... BOB SEGER Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can try... MIKE NICHOLS Life doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it ... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA 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 would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. ... CHERYL HINES I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... HARRY STYLES I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a s... SKYLAR GREY It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a ... MONICA JOHNSON It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas... GLENN TIPTON I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into t... DAVID SELTZER The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki... BARRY MANN I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. Th... VANESSA LACHEY To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when y... CHRIS CORNELL There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ... P. J. HARVEY I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've go... LIL REL HOWERY I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing a... MARGARET STOHL If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can'... OTIS REDDING 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 When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kin... J. COLE Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau... BRENDON URIE Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. IAN FRAZIER When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see t... SHARON STONE Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f... TRISHA YEARWOOD One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment... HENRY ROLLINS Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you'... SEAN SPICER It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what yo... ROBERT FORSTER For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When yo... NESTOR CARBONELL 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 It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours. VINCE MCMAHON Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That&... ALEX EBERT We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempti... D. A. PENNEBAKER If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make... JAMES MCBRIDE In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays,... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're th... LAURA BENANTI I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in ev... ACTION BRONSON It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But... MARK WAHLBERG When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certa... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that'... ROY BLOUNT, JR. When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ... RYAN CARTWRIGHT As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not ... DAKOTA FANNING I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia... ZOE KAZAN When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicatin... PEGGY RATHMANN 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 truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family ... GARY ALLAN I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it. ELIZA DOOLITTLE I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi... PATRICK MARBER When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respe... TOM WAITS It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles.... GISELE BUNDCHEN 'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three... KEVIN MCHALE Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the no... GARTH RISK HALLBERG The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately tha... ISAAC HANSON A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want peopl... MARLON JAMES When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when yo... TEA OBREHT Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... CALVIN JOHNSON I didn't know anything about Eliza when I first got the call about 'Hamilton.' Tommy Kai... PHILLIPA SOO I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'... TAJ MAHAL If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book ... A. N. WILSON As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep pe... FEDE ALVAREZ Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that.... KID ROCK When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... JASON KIDD I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things... BONNIE BEDELIA Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel qui... ALEX KAPRANOS The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't... PAUL GREENGRASS Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y... MARCEL DUCHAMP That line, about half of somebody's supporters being deplorables, was maybe the worst line I'... ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You cou... RAINI RODRIGUEZ A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anym... AARON SORKIN I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room fo... KACEY MUSGRAVES 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
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CARMEN MIRANDA More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how ... CARMEN MIRANDA Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body. CARMEN MIRANDA Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with ... MIRANDA RAISON I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do. MIRANDA COSGROVE It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get... MIRANDA OTTO I had a similar match last year against Harvard and pulled it out as we won 5-4, so I was thinking a... MIRANDA RANIERI The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and l... MIRANDA OTTO Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much h... MIRANDA KERR While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships a... MIRANDA KERR My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing d... MIRANDA COSGROVE Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so ... MIRANDA HART I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and peo... MIRANDA HART I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work ... MIRANDA OTTO It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends fr... MIRANDA HART Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. MIRANDA OTTO Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always... MIRANDA SEYMOUR An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect ... MIRANDA JULY I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to d... MIRANDA HART My parents are private investigators for God's sake. MIRANDA LAMBERT We're more of a family style restaurant. ADRIAN MIRANDA I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing. MIRANDA RICHARDSON Junk food drags you down. MIRANDA LAMBERT I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being... MIRANDA HART I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me do... MIRANDA KERR I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential. MIRANDA OTTO I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, ha... MIRANDA LAMBERT When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin... MIRANDA JULY Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there ... MIRANDA RICHARDSON It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things. MIRANDA RICHARDSON I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent. MIRANDA KERR And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. MIRANDA RICHARDSON We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that a... MIRANDA JULY I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipu... MIRANDA MARROTT It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. MIRANDA OTTO The smoke was very thick. I could hardly breathe. I helped (other) people out (of the building). ANTHONY MIRANDA Compacting has been a major issue for a long, long time, and it's up to the membership to decide on ... ANTHONY MIRANDA We may never land because of the central core issue that tribes are sovereigns. ANTHONY MIRANDA They just basically want to change the rules. This affects an entire industry where tens of millions... ANTHONY MIRANDA Now, more than ever, it's vital, absolutely vital, that tribal leaders walk the halls of Congress th... ANTHONY MIRANDA My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' MIRANDA LEEK