#written

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. ↗

— John Lithgow

#directed #ducks #easy #good #good actors

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#experience #had #i #i can #killed

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #i think #itself #life #myself

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #diary #during #emotions #form

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#cecil #character #chief #commandments #daily

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#good #good stories #i #i think #rare

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

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#ashes #contract #cremated #given #i