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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
Robert Schumann
Tags: You Because Write
I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier.
George Foreman
Tags: Want Would World
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.


Jean Paul Gaultier
Tags: Beauty You People
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.
Ruth Glick
Tags: Power Like Get
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.


Aaron Neville
Tags: People Me Always
I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
Kevin Costner
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
Tags: Think Just Who
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
Tags: Fear Out Want
I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
Layne Staley
Tags: Out Would Things
I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.
Alexandra Cassavetes
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
Joe Wright
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.
Neil Cavuto
Tags: Time Me Other
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
Tags: Time Me Myself
I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.
Simon Toyne
Tags: Time Always Had
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.
Mick Ralphs
Tags: Good Hope You
I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
Vera Wang
Tags: Just Life Know
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
Elizabeth Strout
Tags: Me Think Always