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I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an...

I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he's too busy.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about idea, thinking

Every book was the best I could do at the time I wrote...

Every book was the best I could do at the time I wrote it, and every book was a story I still care about and believe in.

Quote by Orson Scott about love, faith, time

How was I to do that? If I wrote about them in the same language that I was using to write about Joe and Sammy, it would give the comics characters the same level of familiarity.

Quote by Michael Chabon about language

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about film

This book was company for me-I wrote these things when I...

This book was company for me-I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about companies, things

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about career, world, life

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and...

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

Quote by Dennis Farina about stupidity, day, writing

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a...

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about companies

After we finished his scene, Dad wrote me a letter saying that in his 41 years of making motion pictures, he had never seen a crew so devoted to their director, nor a director so devoted to his crew.

Quote by Peter Fonda

He wrote, You are a very good director, son, and I love you very much. Your dad. He had never used those words with me before. I passed that letter around the company. For without the company, the letter would never have been written.

Quote by Peter Fonda about companies, word, good, good luck, contentment, love

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about death, day, country, reason, war, old, olderness, nothing, good, good luck

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and...

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Quote by Billy Joel about purpose, career, thinking, good, good luck

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about money, man

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote...

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, destruction, civilization

Some people manage by the book, even though they don't...

Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, people

When reviewing the radio frequencies that you just wrote...

When reviewing the radio frequencies that you just wrote down, the most important ones are always illegible.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, contentment

All mother's have a How To manual. That's because they...

All mother's have a How To manual. That's because they wrote the book.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages, he's fantastic.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about contentment

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, it seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

Quote by George Oppen about pointless, old, olderness, people

Two of my biggest heroes as songwriters are Roger Miller and Buck Owens. They wrote about the problems we face, but there was always an amusing turn of phrase or a chuckle.

Quote by Brad Paisley about problems, face

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