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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.


Bryan Ferry


#art #career #completely #connected #extent

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#call #days #debate #history #i

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.


Tina Fey


#audience #comedy #down #dress #her

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.


Tina Fey


#awhile #haven #i #improvised #improviser

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.


Don Cheadle


#amount #as far as #being #black #change

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.


John Cheever


#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.


John Cheever


#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.


John Cheever


#am #comprehend #consciousness #danger #going

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.


Leslie Fiedler


#got #me #never #nice #nothing

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.


Jay Chiat


#cd-rom #check #databases #everyone #existing






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