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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.


Oriana Fallaci
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There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.
Keith Emerson
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Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.
Andrew Motion
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I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'
Sue Monk Kidd
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You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
Chuck Klosterman
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In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?
Paul Davies
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When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
Lilly Singh
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I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.


Lillie Langtry
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
Jose Saramago
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I am not a consecutive writer.


Dr. Seuss
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I am the worlds laziest writer.


Oscar Peterson
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I am a writer of fragments.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.


Manolo Blahnik
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All I am is a writer and a mom.


Susan Straight
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People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.
Lucy Punch
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I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?
Nicole Holofcener
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.


Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I am a night person for sure.


Dylan Lauren
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I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.
Montel Williams
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