Quotes about writ
writing guy trying
I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there. Jim Gaffigan
writing thinking decision
I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.
writing creative comedian
For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.
writing done kind
I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.
writing views comedian
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
writing giving inspire
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
writing cities bye
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
writing people ego
I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. Jim Beaver
writing ipads iphone
There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code. Jim Balsillie
writing stuff gone
I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through. Jill Hennessy
writing important literature
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too. Jill Paton Walsh
writing building dollhouses
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. Jill McCorkle
writing artist trying
Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry. Jesse McCartney
writing names columns
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. Jesse Jackson
writing satisfying
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. Jennifer Jason Leigh
writing people guy
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?' Jennifer Lawrence
writing successful play
Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions. Jeffrey Pfeffer
writing gone saws
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts. Jeffrey Rosen
writing voice louis-brandeis
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.
writing sister-in-law mind
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.
writing play mind
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. Jeff Daniels
writing actors want
Every actor just wants good writing.
writing play giving
Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
writing stories please
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. Jean M. Auel
writing influence i-can
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
writing want stories
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
writing ideas stories
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
writing historical fiction
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
writing way sometimes
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
writing giving sometimes
Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you a positive listing on your credit report - even though you haven't paid the full amount. Get this agreement in writing. Jean Chatzky
writing thinking play
I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first. Jean Kerr
writing research
To do the writing, I have to have time to do research. Jean-Jacques Annaud
writing growth stories
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. Jean Houston