I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote
One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning. ' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.
Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it. '
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid. . . it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.
The worst storyline Ive ever been involved in I wasnt involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon. ” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.