#written

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind. ↗

— Judy Davis

#better #dealing #generally #had #i

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories. ↗

— Mac Davis

#chance #eight #elvis #had #his

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#i think #lot #mothers #recorded #road

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other. ↗

— Judi Dench

#because #believe #business #especially #everything

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#always #american #american policy #everywhere #foreign

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #authors #books #bookstore #certainty

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#book #classic #written

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour. ↗

— Eminem

#go #head #hour #i #into

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#character #country #earth #epitaph #her