Marissa Moss Quote: 'I sat down and wrote what ...' @FEELquotes

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Otis Blackwell

Tags: Just Then Got

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

Tracy Chevalier

Tags: Because Get Then

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

Tags: Me About Just

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

Karl Marlantes

Tags: Great War About

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

Emma McLaughlin

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When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.

Julia Cameron

Tags: Change Me About

We became the songs we wrote.

Barry Mann

Tags: Songs Became Wrote

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Lesley Visser

Tags: Myself Down Top

I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

Nile Rodgers

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I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

James Brolin

Tags: Like Were Feel

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

Rupert Murdoch

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I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

Tim Rice

Tags: Good Fear Very

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Paul Kane

Tags: Work Best Then

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

Julie Walters

Tags: People Get Being

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

Marc Forster

Tags: Me About Because

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

Sam Ewing

Tags: Who Down Decision

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

Rob Brown

Tags: Family Business Like

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

Dan Reynolds

Tags: Music Home Dad

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

A. Whitney Brown

Tags: History Only Down

I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.

Annabeth Gish

Tags: Business Me Way

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