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I am doing another series for a San Antonio library for a charity called Born to Read. It supports literacy among young kids, trying to encourage kids to read and write.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about encouragement, charity

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about music

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Quote by Chris Isaak about end, worry, contentment, actors, rightness, things

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Quote by Michael Jackson about commerce, things, good, good luck, people

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Quote by Mick Jagger about day, contentment, bad luck, bad, moment, good, good luck

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Quote by Mick Jagger about character, contentment

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Quote by Billy Joel about poets, writers, artists, life

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Quote by Billy Joel about death, good, good luck

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Quote by Billy Joel about affair, age, olderness

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Quote by Elton John about action, things, people, contentment

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about emotions, writers, pleasure, contentment

It is difficult not to write satire.

Quote by Juvenal about satire

Regardless of how well one writes, it is difficult to write at all unless there is lead in the pencil.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

The chances of a program doing what it's supposed to do is inversely proportional to the number of lines of code used to write it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, chance, numbers

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, real estate

In a line the biggest order is in the front, and the customer has coupons and wants to write a check.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about order, customers

You can't misspell numbers when you write them as digits.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about school, education, numbers, contentment

Always be sure to give the guy who complains about paying your salary his nickel back before you write his ticket; It will leave him with a better impression of your services.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, salary, contentment

No matter how you write it, the Desk Sergeant will want it changed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, contentment