I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short of that whole 'Diary' album.
I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'
When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Songs, to me, have always been kind of like a diary, you know - and, say, when I did 'Teenager In Love,' maybe I was 16.
With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.
Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
I spent years crying in my diary.
But I finally stopped finding
fault with myself. We're
all different, yet the same.
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
I express myself a lot on Tumblr, especially through my diary entries, but my Instagram is my modeling portfolio. I have my game face on at all times.
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.
My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.
I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."
My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.
I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.
I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.
I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.
I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.
I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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