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When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.
Rufus Wainwright
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
Jane Smiley
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I love how Pilates makes me feel, like it opens me up. I have the hardest time breathing, weirdly enough. Even when I have conversations, I need to work on my breathing, so it's something I enjoy because it's peaceful and it helps me relax.
Selena Gomez
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To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
Sophie Kinsella
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow
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For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
Claudia Schiffer
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When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.


Carla Hall
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
Barry Hannah
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I'd like someone who challenges me, someone who is more beautiful in the inside than they are on the outside.
Matthew Morrison
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I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
Kim Cattrall
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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
John Sandford
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I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.


Ion Tiriac
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.


Edith Wharton
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Outside of his loving family, I'm sure that Andy Griffith was Don Knotts' greatest fan.


Ron Howard
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I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.
Hope Solo
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I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
Pope Theodoros II
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
Macklemore
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Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.


Paul Stanley
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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
Fred Saberhagen
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