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- Nov 07, 2020
Scribble Quotes
On jotting down thoughts before they're polished.
These scribble quotes celebrate rough, unpolished writing, from goal lists jotted down after hardship to habitual note-taking on scraps of paper. See Creativity quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean hand, in a kind of a clear format only because it is aesthetically pleasing. I can scribble, that's also fine.
- Boards
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I’d scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020