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I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
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I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.


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Writing is the hardest physical work there is.


Tom Robbins
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.


Ta-Nehisi Coates
I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
Danny Boyle
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
Tom Wolfe
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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
Brendan Fletcher
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I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
Katherine Dunham
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My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
Michael Patrick King
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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.
Nell Newman
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.
Hilarie Burton
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.


Chantal Kreviazuk
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.


Natalie Goldberg
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
Zach McGowan
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
Roy Harper
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.


Robert M. Pirsig
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg
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I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
Adam Rapp
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