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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#falklands #first #got #gulf #gulf war

And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#administration #arizona #been #borders #citizens

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

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If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#aspects #attack #being #books #comedy

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic. ↗

— Salma Hayek

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Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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