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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney
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About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.


Tim LaHaye
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.
Graham Parker
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I had a very happy childhood.


Juan Antonio Bayona
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I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
Nicholas Brendon
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer
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I had a picture-perfect childhood.


Kelly Ripa
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I had an amazing childhood.


Abbie Cornish
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I never had a true childhood.


Bethenny Frankel
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.


Jonathan Coe
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If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.


Tracy Kidder
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
Rachel Kushner
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So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.


George Saunders
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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
Neil Jordan
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
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I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.


Demi Lovato
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.


Maeve Binchy
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
Edith Piaf
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
Taylor Swift