#rite

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. ↗

— David Mamet

#jobs #our #writers

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

#agent #both #degree #his #historian

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#been #decade #drivers #factor #favourites

Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#anything #artists #favorite #free #free stuff

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A. ↗

— Teena Marie

#i #i write #keys #lot #probably

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #bipartisan #came #controlled #deficit

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue. ↗

— George Lucas

#being #dialogue #king #me #screenplays

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#balance sheets #cannot #men #poetry #read

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location. ↗

— James MacArthur

#allowed #did #even #first #location