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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
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In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.
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I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.


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I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.
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I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.


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Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.


Zooey Deschanel
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My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.
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I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
Cherie Lunghi
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I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
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I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
Junot Diaz
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When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
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My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.


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I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
Elaine Stritch
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I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
Fred Savage
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.


Norm MacDonald
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As a child I had terrible asthma.


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