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  • If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

  • If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

    Writing   Effort   Film  
    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

    Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.87, Crown/Archetype
  • Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

    Song   Writing   Thinking  
  • When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

    "Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches" by Vi-An Nguyen, parade.com. May 20, 2013.
  • If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

    Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.31, Zondervan
  • I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

    "'Fifty Shades of Grey' shines light on erotic fan fiction" By Stephanie Goldberg, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.
  • I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

    Art   Book   Writing  
    "Chris Van Allsburg on Picture Book Writing". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. October 28, 2011.
  • People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

    Life   Trust   Failure  
  • There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

    Song   Writing   Kind  
    "'Sons of Anarchy's' Katey Sagal talks about her other life, as a singer". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 29, 2010.
  • You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

    Writing   Want   Opinion  
  • Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

    Book   Reading   Writing  
  • Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

    Writing   Men   Rights  
    Source: gawker.com
  • A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

    Stupid   Writing   Ideas  
  • Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

  • And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.

    Book   Writing   Giving  
    Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.8, Macmillan
  • I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.

  • There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
  • Improvise. Write your own damn story.

    Writing   Stories   Damn  
  • If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

    FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Dec 26, 2010
  • Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

  • You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.

    Writing   Rapper   Names  
    Source: www.parlemag.com
  • Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

    Nice   Writing   Bored  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

    Book   Writing   Taste  
  • Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

    Writing   Artist   Years  
    Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
  • You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it is to do. Eventually, you learn your own vision of the world, you learn your own voice and how to hear it, and you learn to write your own work. Writers today have as many opportunities as my generation did, but they don't see the examples as clearly as we did.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

    Song   Xmas   Writing  
    Twitter post from Dec 12, 2010
  • It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

  • Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

    "The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz and Janet Mills, 2009.
  • You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

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