Written Quotes

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Fate is written in the face.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.