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pos: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" is a 1935 popular song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Joe Young. It has been recorded many times, and has become a standard of the Great American Songbook. It was popularized by Fats Waller, who recorded it in 1935 at the height of his fame. It is one of several songs from the Harlem Renaissance featured in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'". American Public Media's business-news program, Marketplace, uses a portion of Fats Waller's version to

pos: Joe Young (lyricist) The show also included: His last work was the famous standard "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", written with Fred Ahlert in 1935. Joe Young died in New York. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Joe Young (lyricist) Joe Young (July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939) was a lyricist. He was born in New York. Young was most active from 1911 through the late-1930s, beginning his career working as a singer and songplugger for various music publishers. During World War I, he entertained the U.S. Troops, touring Europe as a

neg: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter 1973 Cleo Laine included the song as her opening song on the album "I Am a Song" and sang on stage during her subsequent tour. New Jersey entertainer Uncle Floyd (aka Floyd Vivino) has covered this song in his live performances as well as recording it. Madeleine Peyroux also covered this song on her debut album "Dreamland" (1996). Tony Danza released a version in 2002. In 2012 Paul McCartney covered it on his album of standards, "Kisses on the Bottom" and chose one of its lines as the title. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter "I'm

neg: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Gregory Isaacs, Barry Manilow, Dean Martin, Anne Murray, Willie Nelson, Linda Scott, Shakin' Stevens, Al Bowlly and Sarah Vaughan. Charlie Gracie (mostly known for his 1957 #1 hit "Butterfly" on Cameo Record label #105—45rpm) recorded "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Cadillac Record label #141—45 rpm). The flip side of the record was a song written by Gracie, "Boogie Woogie Blues". Gracie's version was released in 1953. Bill Haley & His Comets recorded a rock and roll version of the song in 1957. Fabian recorded his version of the song in 1960 on Chancellor Records. In

neg: Lisa Ben popular songs at a local gay club called The Flamingo. For example, "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" became "I'm gonna sit right down and write my butch a letter". She was inspired to write her songs out of a determination to create gay entertainment that was neither profane nor demeaning to gay people, particularly after being discouraged by the self-deprecating jokes and songs made by performers in gay clubs. The Daughters of Bilitis released a single of Eyde, as "Lisa Ben", as a fundraiser. The record included her own composition, "Cruisin' Down the Boulevard" with

neg: Jane Austen way of dancing and sitting down together." Austen wrote in her first surviving letter to her sister Cassandra that Lefroy was a "very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man". Five days later in another letter, Austen wrote that she expected an "offer" from her "friend" and that "I shall refuse him, however, unless he promises to give away his white coat", going on to write "I will confide myself in the future to Mr Tom Lefroy, for whom I don't give a sixpence" and refuse all others. The next day, Austen wrote: "The day will come on which I flirt my

neg: Kisses on the Bottom Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", originally a hit for Fats Waller in 1935. Said McCartney in the liner notes, "I worked with Diana Krall, and great jazz musicians like John Clayton. This is an album very tender, very intimate. This is an album you listen to at home after work, with a glass of wine or a cup of tea." The disc was helmed by LiPuma who has previously worked with Miles Davis and Barbra Streisand, among others. The album is mostly standards, with two originals written in the same style ("My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts").

neg: Pat Nixon Steinem: "Now, I have friends in all the countries of the world. I haven't just sat back and thought of myself or my ideas or what I wanted to do. Oh no, I've stayed interested in people. I've kept working. Right here in the plane I keep this case with me, and the minute I sit down, I write my thank you notes. Nobody gets by without a personal note. I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with. I've never had it easy. I'm not like all you ... all those people who

neg: Wanted on Voyage trip around Europe in mid-2013. He told "American Songwriter", "For my EP and album, I took a train journey around Europe for a month. I was just writing down everything I was seeing and all the people I was meeting. When I got home, I took the words I had written and made songs out of them. I've got some friends who say, 'I'm going to sit down and write 3 songs today,' and then they sit down and write 3 songs. I can't do that. I can't just write a song. I needed to take that trip and it

neg: Mike Barrett (sportscaster) pretty easy. To sit down to write after a game or after an event, positive or negative news, it's almost my way of going home and unwinding and reliving it. I think a lot of writers would say that. That's my way of going home and coming down from the high of the night. "I get wordy, I get long, I start writing. They tell me, 'just write a paragraph,' and I said, 'I get going, I can't.' The next thing I know I'm at 2,000 words. I've enjoyed sitting down after my kids and wife go to bed, sit

neg: Charlie Gracie young musician and signed him to a recording contract. This association yielded the single "Boogie Woogie Blues" backed with "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter". The record led to Charlie's first appearance on Bob Horn's "American Bandstand" television program, four years before Dick Clark became the host. After cutting two more singles for Cadillac, including one called "Rockin' 'n' Rollin'" in 1952, Charlie moved on to 20th Century Records, where he put out another four sides. The discs he made embraced a wide variety of styles: jump blues, gospel, and country boogie with the influences of

neg: Billy Williams (singer) Billy Williams (singer) Wilfred Williams (December 28, 1910 – October 17, 1972) was an African-American singer. He had a successful cover recording of Fats Waller's "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" in 1957. The record sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. His trademark hook for his songs was to shout "Oh, Yeah" at the end of lyrics. A Methodist minister's son, Williams was born in Waco, Texas. His early youth was spent in Texas, before the family moved to Ohio. Growing up, he sang in choirs at churches where his father

neg: Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind captioned the video saying: I'm not gonna lie- I had complex feelings about spending the weekend dancing whilst watching tensions w North Korea mount. I find It's a tightrope between being vigilantly observant of everything going on in the world and also having enough space and time to appreciate God's good earth the way it was intended to be appreciated. On my way home I found myself compelled to visit an old favorite place of mine at the rim of the world highway where I took a moment to sit down by the sequoia grove and write a little song.

neg: Wilbur Smith imagined readers. Write only for yourself." This was something that I had learned for myself. Charles merely confirmed it for me. Now, when I sit down to write the first page of a novel, I never give a thought to who will eventually read it. He said, "Don't talk about your books with anybody, even me, until they are written." Until it is written a book is merely smoke on the wind. It can be blown away by a careless word. I write my books while other aspiring authors are talking theirs away. He said, "Dedicate yourself to your calling,

neg: Mel Carter 50s Pop", performing a tribute to Billy Williams ("I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter") and Tommy Edwards ("It's All in the Game"). Carter later acted on television programs such as "Quincy, M.E.", "Sanford and Son", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "The Eddie Capra Mysteries", "CHiPs" and "Magnum, P.I.", and in films such as "Friday Foster" (1975), "Chesty Anderson, USN" (1976), "American Raspberry" (1977) and "Angel" (1984). Mel Carter Mel Carter (born April 22, 1939, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer and actor. He is best known for his 1965 million-selling recording, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me". Carter

neg: Big Joe Turner recording of a club appearance made during this tour is not thought of sufficient sound quality to justify commercial issue. He also toured Europe with Count Basie and his orchestra. He won the "Esquire" magazine award for male vocalist in 1945, the "Melody Maker" award for best "new" vocalist of 1956, and the British "Jazz Journal" award as top male singer of 1965. In 1977, Turner recorded "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" for Spivey Records, with Lloyd Glenn on piano. Turner's career endured from the barrooms of Kansas City in the 1920s (when at the

neg: Eric B. & Rakim are. That's because Rakim wrote it right there and we'd been in the studio like for a whole forty-eight hours trying to get the album finished." Rakim agrees: "[I] used to write my rhymes in the studio and go right into the booth and read them. When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes - but I'm my worst critic. That's what I hear, though - because that's what it was. I'd go into the studio, put the beat down, write the song in like an hour, and go into the booth and read it

neg: Frightened Rabbit it doesn’t mean I don’t want to write any records like that. It’s going to be really pleasant to go back to that way of working, where I sit around and do stuff myself." Both keyboardist and guitarist Andy Monaghan and touring member Simon Liddell collaborated with Scott on the project, which was later named Owl John. On 25 March 2014, Gordon Skene departed the band owing to "differing opinions" with the four other members. The band wrote on Facebook: "There is no more to tell other than sometimes things just don’t work out and when people have differing opinions

neg: Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport is a 1958 live album by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, recorded at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. Fitzgerald's first track promoted her recent album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook" (1956), and after several teething problems with the microphone, and tempo problems on "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)", she delivers a stunning scat solo on "Air Mail Special", quoting from several recent pop hits. Holiday is introduced by Johnny Mercer, and Carmen McRae's performance of that year was

neg: Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport featured on the 2000 Verve CD reissue. Side One: Side Two: Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport is a 1958 live album by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, recorded at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. Fitzgerald's first track promoted her recent album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook" (1956), and after several teething problems with the microphone, and tempo problems on "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)", she delivers a stunning scat solo on "Air Mail Special", quoting from several recent pop hits. Holiday is introduced

neg: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter open its weekly letters-from-listeners segment. The song had a major revival in 1957 in a Coral recording (on April 3) by Billy Williams with orchestra directed by Dick Jacobs. It reached #3 on the "Billboard" magazine charts. A reported million-seller, it was awarded a Gold record. The song was recorded by Frank Sinatra for his 1954 album "Swing Easy", by Bing Crosby for his 1957 LP "Bing with a Beat" and again by Sinatra in 1962 for his collaborative album with Count Basie, "". Among other versions are recordings by The Boswell Sisters, Connee Boswell, Nat "King" Cole, Scatman Crothers,

neg: Lord of the World all." In a letter to Mr. Rolfe on 19 January 1906, Benson wrote, "Anti-Christ is beginning to obsess me. If it is ever written, it will be a BOOK. How much do you know about the Freemasons? Socialism? I am going to avoid scientific developments, and confine myself to social. This election seems to hold vast possibilities in the direction of Anti-Christ's Incarnation -- I think he will be born of a virgin. Oh! If I dare to write all that I think! In any case, it will take years." According to Father Martindale, the gradual evolution of "Lord of

neg: Eva Hesse She certainly didn't have the attitude that she would mutely sit by and let it disintegrate before her eyes." LeWitt's response is supported by many of Hesse’s other friends and colleagues. However, Hesse’s dedication to material and process contradicts her intention for these works to attain permanency. When discussing this topic with collectors in mind, she wrote, "At this point, I feel a little guilty when people want to buy it. I think they know but I want to write them a letter and say it's not going to last. I am not sure what my stand on lasting really

neg: Life Will Write the Words a banjo, some trashcans and a typewriter, resulting in an energetic, electrified album. As with previous albums, Avary wrote and performed every note on this album. “I really wanted to push myself musically and lyrically with this album, searching to pull out the stories within and around me,” explains Avary. “I like to write songs that are an honest reflection of what’s going on in my life and in my mind while I observe and attempt to learn more about myself and this beautiful, intense world we live in.” Regarding the album title, 'Life Will Write the Words', Avary says,

neg: Alasinga Perumal I die of cold or disease or hunger here, you take up the task. Holiness sincerity, and faith. I have left instructions with Cooks to forward any letter or money to me wherever I am. Rome was not built in a day. If you can keep me here for six months at least, I hope everything will come right. In the meantime I am trying my best to find any plank I can float upon. And if I find out any means to support myself, I shall write to you immediately. Right after getting this letter, Alasinga started collecting money

neg: Zhao Yanshou of staff Li Song and Feng Yu. They had Du write a letter to Zhao, encouraging him to do so, with the officer Zhao Xingshi (sharing the name that Zhao Yanshou's father used to use), who had previously served under Zhao Yanshou, delivering the letter. Zhao Yanshou wrote back (to try to lead Later Jin forces into a trap), stating, "I have long been in a foreign land, and I want to return to China. Please launch a major army to support me, so that I can pull myself out and return with it." Subsequently, under Emperor Taizong's orders, Liao's

neg: Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns people can write down so many words that mean absolutely nothing. Try it sometime. It's almost impossible to write down words that mean absolutely nothing, but they can do it, and they do it continually and relentlessly. I put out 3 issues of a little, Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. The material received was so totally inept that the other editor and myself were forced to write most of the poems. He'd write the first half of one poem, then I'd finish it. Then I'd go the first half of another and he'd finish it. Then we'd sit

neg: When the Sun Goes Down in Normandie (Then Is When I Sit and Dream of You) and piano. The lyrics begins with a woman proudly declaring that her soldier boyfriend has sent her a letter. The chorus is the contents of the letter: The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library. When the Sun Goes Down in Normandie (Then Is When I Sit and Dream of You) "When the Sun Goes Down in Normandie (Then Is When I Sit and Dream of You)" is a World War I era song released in 1918. Jeff Branen wrote the lyrics. Evans Lloyd composed the music. The song was published by Jeff Branen Publisher of

neg: American Horse don't always answer your letter soon, but it is because I can not write. As soon as I get so that I can write myself, I will write as often as I can. Tell Brave Bull that Dora (Her Pipe) has been a little sick, but is most well now. Tell if my grandfather is well. If he gets sick tell me. You wrote to my cousin Robert and told him that you had a house to live in, and lots of pigs and cows and such things, and I was very glad. You've got a white man's house to

neg: Matt Christopher the publication of "The Lucky Baseball Bat". "I decided to write a baseball book for children", said Christopher. "I was living in Syracuse, New York at the time, working at General Electric. I spoke about my idea to the branch librarian. She was immediately interested and told me that they needed sports stories badly." His conversation with the librarian, along with a rejection letter from a publisher (who recommended that Christopher concentrate on writing stories for kids since he seemed to "have a talent for writing about children"), inspired Christopher to sit down over Thanksgiving in 1952 and write "The

neg: Act of Passion relationship with Denyse, who later recalls that he used to beat her, even whilst he was writing the novel. According to Patrick Marnham, "Les Vacances de Maigret" is a similar novel that once again makes use of the fatal jealousy of a doctor to help Simenon finally rid himself of his own ghosts. In a letter to Andre Gide, Simenon wrote, "It took me twelve months to write "Act of Passion". I really do not know if it was worth the trouble. I wrote it in order to rid myself of my ghosts, not to commit the same deed carried

neg: Varien saying: "I make so many other types of music so I thought I’d sit down and write – no theme, no story. It’s a very Zen experience. Very spiritual. Wake up. Do yoga. Make music. No regard for the club. No regard for where it will be played or comparisons to my past music or anything else that’s going on. I’ve never gone to any of these places I’m exploring right now. I want people to listen to it and think ‘is this Varien?’ Psychedelic, worldly, ethnic, trippy... People have never seen me go there. Yet." "The Ancient & Arcane"

neg:
Rohingya language leik-kó =wrote(II) "Tuñí ciñçí ekkán leikkó." You wrote a letter.
 18 leik-kó-s =wrote(IIa) "Tui ciñçí ekkán leikkós." You wrote a letter.
 19 leik-ké =wrote(III) "Tará ciñçí ekkán leikké." They wrote a letter. 20 lek-í-youm =will write(I) "Aññí ciñçí ekkán lekíyoum." I will write a letter.
 21 lek-í-ba =will write(II) "Tuñí ciñçí ekkán lekíba." You will write a letter.
 22 lek-í-bi =will write(IIa) "Tui ciñçí ekkán lekkíbi." You will write a letter.
 23 lek-í-bou =will write(III) "Tará ciñçí ekkán lekíbou." They will write a letter.
 24 leik-kyóum =will write(I) "Aññí ciñçí ekkán leikkyóum." I will write a letter.
 25 leik-bá =will

neg: Ready or Not (Bridgit Mendler song) "It’s a fun song about a girl who is feeling like she has been the wallflower her whole life and she wants to go out there and take charge. It has the romantic element of her going for the guy rather than waiting for the world to come to her. I wrote it with some great writers and producers. We wrote most of the album together." Mendler also said of the song: "I'm thrilled to finally share my songs with the world. I wanted to write something that was empowering for girls. I consider myself to have been that girl

neg: Lucy Maud Montgomery writing, "I saw myself the wonder of my schoolmates – a little local celebrity." Upon rejection, Montgomery wrote, "Tears of disappointment "would" come in spite of myself, as I crept away to hide the poor crumpled manuscript in the depths of my trunk." She would later write, "down, deep down under all the discouragement and rebuff, I knew I would 'arrive' some day." After completing her education in Cavendish, Montgomery spent one year (1890) in Prince Albert with her father and her stepmother, Mary Ann McRae. While in Prince Albert, Montgomery's first work, a poem entitled "On Cape LeForce," was

neg: Michael Grade "was actually doing the right thing", and she credited the long break with rejuvenating the series. In 1986, Grade decided to fire actor Colin Baker from the title role of "Doctor Who". Years later he explained that he thought Baker's portrayal of the Doctor was "utterly unlikeable; absolutely God-awful in fact". Following the end of the first series of the revived "Doctor Who" in 2005, he wrote a letter to Mark Thompson, the BBC Director General, congratulating all involved in the production on its success, signing-off with "PS never dreamed I would ever write this. Must be going soft!" In

neg: Blackfield IV fourth album], I am only helping [Geffen], a bit of singing, guitar, mixing whatever it takes but I am not going to tour, it’ll be too much, I’ll kill myself, would just run myself to the ground. I won’t tour Blackfield anymore but I will do anything to keep the name going...I just don’t think that writing the kind of style that Blackfield make is where I am at right now. Despite Wilson's focus on his solo career, Geffen pressed forward with the album, writing around thirty tracks for the album before whittling it down to the strongest eleven tracks

neg: Donald Murray (writer) wrote, "Each time I sit down to write I don't know if I can do it. The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can". His final column was published in the Boston Globe five days before his death. Throughout his book, "Crafting a Life," Murray demonstrates his writing process and provides guidelines for readers developing their own writing. He notes authors who have provided inspiration for his personal writing like Graham Greene and George Orwell. Orwell's essay Why I

neg: Dmitri Shostakovich his friend Isaak Glikman, "I started thinking that if some day I die, nobody is likely to write a work in memory of me, so I had better write one myself." Several of Shostakovich's colleagues, including Natalya Vovsi-Mikhoels and the cellist Valentin Berlinsky, were also aware of the Eighth Quartet's biographical intent. Peter J. Rabinowitz has also pointed to covert references to Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen in the Eighth Quartet. In 1962 Shostakovich got married for the third time, to Irina Supinskaya. In a letter to Glikman, he wrote "her only defect is that she is 27 years old. In all

neg: Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg in 1890, Eulenburg wrote: "Your Majesty has thrown me into transports of joy with his gracious letter with its rich contents, and I must take the greatest care to control myself so that I do not write four pages expressing my gratitude! Your Majesty knows very well -- without my saying it -- what feelings gripped me when I saw the beloved handwriting!". In the summer of 1889, the anti-Bismarck faction learned that the Chancellor was planning to permit the return of the Catholic Redemptorist order of monks who had been banished from Germany during the "Kulturkampf". The return of

neg: Bonnie McKee music video for "Wasted Youth" on her VEVO channel. She uploaded a cover of Prince's song, "When Doves Cry" on her YouTube channel on April 28, 2016, as a tribute to Prince following his death on April 21, 2016. Of the cover, she said, "Prince has been and always will be one of my favorite artists and songwriters of all time. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I ask myself nearly every time I sit down to write a song, "What would Prince do?" "Doves Cry" is perfection and I know I could never even hope to touch his

neg: Texas A&M Aggies football two for my reputation as a person. I've said from day one I'm going to do things the way I think they should be done. There were those who said, `If you don't cheat, you're pretty naive. You can't win that way.' Well, we're going to find out. That's the way we're going to do it. I can walk away and look myself in the mirror and say, 'We did it the right way.' After fourteen years as head coach of the Aggies, Slocum was asked to resign in 2002 following only the second non-winning season of his career. He

neg: Blanche Merrill or cure her Her father and mother are goin' to insure her Since Becky is back in the ballet.</poem> Merrill recounted how she created the song "I Look Like the Last Rose of Summer" for Lillian Shaw: "...I had to write a song for her and it was to be a German number: that is in German dialect. I hadn't any idea when I sat down to write it what it was going to be about: but I like objects, so I asked myself what object I could make use of in the song. And the first thing that came

neg: Dani Shapiro voyeuristic one. This idea of transparency troubles me, and is, I think, at the root of the serial memoirist’s plight. My goal when I sit down to write out of my own circumstances is not to make myself transparent. In fact, I am building an edifice. Stone by stone, I am constructing a story. Brick by brick, I am learning what image, what memory belongs to what." She concluded, "I have used my life—rather than my life using me—to make something more beautiful and refined than I could ever be." Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro (born April 10, 1962) is an

neg: Lady Gaga's meat dress for our rights[,] pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones." "Now, I love Lady Gaga, but as someone who also loves animals, it was really difficult for me to sit next to Lady Gaga while she was wearing that outfit," DeGeneres, who is vegan, later wrote. "But it did make me ask myself, what's the difference between her outfit and an outfit made of leather?" Fernandez was approached by fellow designer and stylist Formichetti to produce the dress, with it planned out over the course of a week, Formichetti having styled the

neg: 1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team players, who were jumping near the team's bench; "Sit down. Sit down. He's just running the wrong way. Every step he takes is to our advantage". Broadcaster Graham McNamee, who was commentating the game on radio, said during Riegels' run; "What am I seeing? What's wrong with me? Am I crazy? Am I crazy? Am I crazy?" After the play, Riegels was so distraught he had to be persuaded to return to the game for the second half by his head coach Nibs Price. Riegels said, "Coach, I can't do it. I've ruined you, I've ruined myself, I've ruined the

neg: Blur (band) had previously dismissed it, Albarn grew to appreciate Coxon's tastes in lo-fi and underground music, and recognised the need to significantly change Blur's musical direction once again. "I can sit at my piano and write brilliant observational pop songs all day long but you've got to move on", he said. He subsequently approached Street, and argued for a more stripped-down sound on the band's next record. Coxon, recognising his own personal need to—as Rowntree put it—"work this band", wrote a letter to Albarn, describing his desire for their music "to scare people again". After initial sessions in London, the band

neg: Blur (Blur album) Coxon's tastes in lo-fi and underground music, and recognised the need to significantly change Blur's musical direction once again. "I can sit at my piano and write brilliant observational pop songs all day long but you've got to move on", he said. He subsequently approached Street, and argued for a more stripped-down sound on the band's next record. Coxon, recognising his own personal need to, as drummer Dave Rowntree put it, "work this band", wrote a letter to Albarn, describing his desire for their music "to scare people again." Recording sessions for the album started in June 1996 at Mayfair

neg: Robert Webb I should have been doing in three hours, I was taking a day and a half to do, while getting drunk. I'd sit in the garden, drinking and talking to myself, then go back upstairs, write another sentence, go, 'Oh, this isn't right.' I'd make such a meal of it. If I'd been more professional, I'd have just done it and got on with my life. Webb thinks it is harmful for men to 'keep a stiff upper lip' and bottle up their feelings. In 2015, Webb began writing his first solo memoir, "How Not to be a Boy", on

neg: Lloyd L. Gaines will have at least made it possible for some other boy or girl to go.'" In his last letter to his mother, dated March 3, Gaines said: Gaines had begun his letter by telling his mother that he had gone to Chicago "hoping to find it possible to make my own way." He ended, saying, "Should I forget to write for a time, don't worry about it. I can look after myself OK". Gaines also wrote that his accommodations at the YMCA were paid through March 7 and if he stayed in Chicago beyond that date, he would have to

neg: Nicolas Fatio de Duillier his friend Edward Bernard. Fatio convinced Newton to write a new treatise on a general method of integration, "De quadratura curvarum". Initially, he also expected to collaborate with Newton on an entirely new edition of the "Principia" that would include Fatio's mechanical explanation of gravity. By the end of 1691, Fatio realised that Newton would not proceed with that project, but he still hoped to collaborate with Newton on corrections to the text of the "Principia". In a letter to Huygens, Fatio wrote, concerning those corrections, "I may possibly undertake it myself, as I know no one who so well

neg: Death of Vincent van Gogh plants, everything under a sky of delicate tones of blue, white, pink and violet. I am in a mood of almost too much calm, just the mood needed for painting this." Theo recognised that Vincent was experiencing problems. In a letter dated 22 July 1890, he wrote, "I hope, my dear Vincent, that your health is good, and since you say that you write with difficulty, and don't talk about your work I am a little afraid that there is something troubling you or not going right." He went on to suggest that he consult his physician, Dr Gachet. On

neg: Garland Anderson (playwright) of the acorn after it was planted in the ground saying to the inner stir of life for expression, "What are you stirring for? Surely you don't expect to become a great oak tree?" With this firm conviction I determined to write a play." He wrote about the process of writing:Whenever the switchboard would ring while I was writing I would say to myself, "This is just a loving call coming just at the right time to refresh my thoughts in order that I might be able to write better"; and when someone would speak to me I would mentally

neg: Chronicles of an Age of Darkness I was politely asked to write an intermediate book to sit between The Wizards and the Warriors and The Women and the Warlords." "Not really understanding why I was being asked to write this additional book, I nevertheless sat down and wrote it, and had fun doing so ... the result was The Wordsmiths and the Warguild which is the story of Togura Poulaan, a rather hapless young man who endures all manner of adventures but achieves nothing. If he had achieved something, he would have upset my ideas for the overall structure of the series, which was already becoming

neg: Catherine Britt backing band included Kurt Bailey on drums and Ben Conicella on bass guitar. Britt attended the Country Music Awards of Australia, held in Tamworth, in January 2003 and told Debbie Kruger of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) of her writing process for the album, "The way I write songs is a bit strange ... I just sit down and it'll be five minutes, and the song will just come out on paper, and then I'll have to look back on it and go, 'Right, does this make sense?' I hardly ever change my words, ever, I always just write them

neg: Jan Kemp (writer) write hasn’t really changed since I first wrote of this in the anthology "The Young New Zealand Poets" (1973) [...] I still hear a line or lines or just a phrase in my head and have taught myself to listen, to let the words keep on coming; I chant them aloud, to remember them, say if out walking; when I can get to paper and pencil, I write them down. Later, I type them up into a text and spend time finessing them. I do the thinking work then, once I’ve seen what I’ve said or am trying to say.

neg: Neutron Dance someone who could write a melody to a spoon falling on the table. So I literally sang that melody down. First time down, he just kind of followed and went to the right places. And then I said, Let's just write this quick lyric ... we're taking a half an hour on the lyric, and this thing's gonna get done." Willis adds that the lyric theme of "Neutron Dance" was due to "all this stuff going on in my life: "I don't want to take it anymore, I'll just stay here locked behind the door. Just no time to stop

neg: Nimrod Expedition noted by Scott, whose own future Antarctic plans were at that stage unannounced. In a letter to Shackleton, Scott claimed priority rights to McMurdo Sound. "I feel I have a sort of right to my own field of work," he wrote, adding: "anyone who has had to do with exploration will regard this region primarily as mine". He concluded by reminding Shackleton of his duty of loyalty towards his former commander. Shackleton's initial reply was accommodating: "I would like to fall in with your views as far as possible without creating a position that would be untenable to myself". Edward

neg: Fist Fight out of four stars and 2 thumbs down , saying, "I could tell you to sit through "Fist Fight" and then get back to me – but I like you, so I'm not going to urge you to subject yourself to 91 minutes of cinematic detention that felt twice as long and was so ugly, so mean-spirited, so bereft of laughs, I found myself rooting for a technical malfunction if only to catch a momentary breather." British film critic Mark Kermode called it "Shoddily written, screechingly performed, crude, crass, endurance-testing... It's utter, utter, utter rubbish." Fist Fight Fist Fight is

neg: Laika (band) Margaret was off gallivanting around the world with PJ Harvey and getting drunk, going around Australia and America and hanging around with Bono and shit, while I was stuck in my little room ... I sort of set myself a task to stop myself from going mad in my little room: 'Today I'm going to write a song from beginning to end and then I'm just going to forget about it,' whereas in the past I would've worked on it over a period of weeks. There is a lot of spontaneity for a record that took three and a half

neg: The Children's Bach ideas and values test the foundations of their relationship. Helen Garner has said that, "I never have a theoretical idea for a book. What I write usually emerges from things I've witnessed, experiences I've had myself, or that people around me have had ... I don't invent a book out of thin air. I need —or I did at the time I wrote "The Children's Bach"— a bed of detail for the things to be based on before I can start to make something up". Garner goes on to say that, "I didn't know what was going to happen. I

neg: Adelle Davis Have Healthy Children" (1951); "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit" (1954); and "Let's Get Well" (1965). By 1974, when she died, her books had sold over 10 million copies. Davis wrote her consumer books over a 40-year career, revising some in the 1970s. She saw herself as an "interpreter," not merely a researcher. "I think of myself as a newspaper reporter, who goes out to libraries and gathers information from hundreds of journals, which most people can't understand, and I write it so that people "can" understand." She reviews scientific literature in the biochemical libraries at U.C.L.A., for instance. Her

neg: Maeve Binchy out to the Middle East by myself. I wrote to them regularly, telling them about the kibbutz. My father and mother sent my letters to a newspaper, which published them. So I thought, It's not so hard to be a writer. Just write a letter home. After that, I started writing other travel articles. One Sunday, attempting to locate where the Last Supper is supposed to have occurred, she climbed a mountainside to a cavern guarded by a Brooklyn-born Israeli soldier. She wept with despair. The soldier asked, "What'ya expect, ma'am – a Renaissance table set for 13?" She replied,

neg: John Greyson David Byrne, actors Danny Glover and Jane Fonda, author Alice Walker and journalist Naomi Klein. The letter argues that: Fonda would later reconsider her position and released a publicity statement on the matter. "I signed the letter without reading it carefully enough, without asking myself if some of the wording wouldn't exacerbate the situation rather than bring about constructive dialogue," Fonda wrote on the Huffington Post website. She added that the suffering of both sides should be articulated. Journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein went on to write an op-ed piece in "The Globe and Mail", clarifying the intention of

neg: That Summer (song) guy and a married woman meeting at a party. The married woman being ignored by whom she was with, and they snuck off together. Allen Reynolds told me, "Man, I just don't find myself pulling for these characters. It doesn't seem innocently cool." I was thinking that he was right. Going home that night in the truck I started singing she has a need to feel the thunder. Sandy started helping me write the chorus and we got the chorus done. Probably one of the neat things that I love about That Summer is that I think the song is

neg: Hymn Before Sunrise During 1802, Coleridge wrote the poem "Hymn Before Sunrise", which he based on his translation of a poem by Brun. However, Coleridge told William Southeby another story about what inspired him to write the poem in a 10 September 1802 letter: "I involuntarily poured forth a Hymn in the manner of the "Psalms", tho' afterwards I thought the Ideas &c disproportionate to our humble mountains—& accidentally lighting on a short Note in some swiss Poems, concerning the Vale of Chamouny, & it's Mountain, I transferred myself thither, in the Spirit, & adapted my former feelings to these grander external objects".

neg: Noble House to write a story about two Americans who go Hong Kong to try and usurp Noble House and have a lot of adventures. That's all I knew I was going to do beforehand. In the old days—say, "Tai Pan"—when I got myself in a hole I could always kill somebody. It wasn't that easy in "Noble House"." He started in April 1978 but was interrupted by the filming of the novel "Shogun". Clavell says the novel took him three years to research and write. He would write every day, five pages a day. He used old newspapers and court records

neg: Raffaello da Montelupo to write with the left hand, many were astonished, thinking that I wrote "all'ebraica" ["Hebrew-style", i.e. right-to-left] and that [my writing] could not be read later. . . . As I have already said, I draw better with the left hand, and once when I found myself drawing the "Arco di Trasi al Colosseo" [the Arch of Constantine], Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo passed by and stopped to watch me. It should be prefaced that both of them, though naturally left-handed, did everything with their right hand, except actions requiring force. So they stayed a long time to watch me

neg: If I Lose Myself "Smash" star Katharine McPhee. They also performed on "Good Morning America", "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and "Rachael Ray", as well as several other concerts and festivals. In an interview with fuse.tv, Tedder said, "The original concept [for the video] was borrowing from the opening scene of "Garden State"—the plane's going down and all the oxygen masks drop out and everyone's going crazy... We chased that for a minute but realized... It's one thing to watch that kind of video once, but you don't wanna sit there and hit repeat on watching a plane crash." The music video was released on

neg: Paul Tournier the whole person. In 1937 he wrote a letter to all his patients informing them of this new orientation. Tournier describes his newfound interest in the "whole person" thus: I can speak endlessly of myself, to myself or to someone else, without ever succeeding in giving a complete and truthful picture of myself... The same thing happens with all these people who come to see me, and take so much trouble over their efforts to describe themselves to me with strict accuracy; inevitably I form an image of them which derives as much from myself as from them. If they

neg: Mr. Wrong (song) I don't over-think; I don't sit down and come up with concepts. Usually the music kinda tells me what to say. I kinda figure out instantly what I feel like a track is gonna say. With 'Mr. Wrong,' I felt like it described myself and my relationships that I have with women. It's kinda autobiographical for me. I'm just describing what I've heard women in my life say to me." Andy Gill wrote for "The Independent" that "The high priestess of emotional turmoil returns to her apparently turbulent personal life on this latest album, vacillating between obsessive devotion, self-assertive morale-boosting

neg: Selçuk Altun to write a book by the age of 50,” he says. “Before that, I knew I needed to read, so I read some 4,000 books before I sat down to write. That, more than anything, gave me the confidence I needed.” His first novel "Yalnızlık Gittiğin Yoldan Gelir" ("Loneliness Comes from the Road You Go Down") was published in 2001 and has been subsequently followed by four further novels, a book of essays and a regular monthly column titled "Kitap Icin" ("For The Love Of Books") in the "Cumhuriyet". “I regard myself as a ‘person who writes’ rather than a

neg: R.O.S.E. (Jessie J album) learned so much about myself at any other time in my life." After some time off working with DJ Camper, Jessie J became inspired to write again. "[DJ Camper] put the "Think About That" beat on repeat before going outside for a break. I called him a dickhead because I still didn't feel creative yet. I hadn't really written a song for two years, just some poetry. But as I sat there and listened to the beat, words started to come out." In August of 2017, Jessie teamed up with M&M's to promote her single "Real Deal". In the following

neg: On the Inside (song) Sunday afternoon. It was like buying a lottery ticket - either I write something and it might get accepted or I don't write something and not give myself a chance." Caswell recorded the song on a portable cassette player 'and gave it to his publisher who delivered it without listening to it. "Within five days, I was in the studio with Lynne Hamilton. She got half way through the song and burst into tears. Anyone who believed in it like that was going to do a good version of it."' An alternate version of this song was used in the

neg: Robert Blake (admiral) royal treasury of the Spanish government and earned the new English Navy respect throughout Europe. As a reward Blake was given an expensive diamond ring by Cromwell. The action also earned him respect 140 years later from Lord Nelson who lost his arm there in a failed attack; in a letter written on 17 April 1797, to Admiral Sir John Jervis, Nelson wrote "I do not reckon myself equal to Blake", before going on to outline the plans for his own attack. Lord Nelson ranked Robert Blake as one of the greatest naval generals ever known, even when compared with

neg: Born Again Savage is the fifth and last of the political albums I outlined when I decided to make my own records. I wanted to learn about what was going on and write about it, talk about it, and hopefully learn something about myself in the process. After 5 albums and 7 years of traveling and studying and looking around I wrote the following liner notes intended for the original release of this record. We live in an insane asylum. A barbaric, merciless cesspool. And in this purgatory filled with disease and ugliness and violence and hatred and injustice and greed and lies

neg: The Elvis Dead an audio/visual mash-up concert show, telling the story of "Evil Dead 2" through the classic songs of Elvis Presley, and a love letter to both. ... Truth be told, I wrote a show for myself. A niche idea to amuse me and my friends, and as a challenge to see if I could do it. I am glad people like it though. Write what you know, they say." In interviews Kemp has said that one of the inspirations for the show was "Bubba Ho-Tep", a 2002 horror comedy film starring "Evil Dead II" lead actor Bruce Campbell as Presley, fighting

neg: In Dubious Battle In Dubious Battle In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist attempting to organize abused laborers in order to gain fair wages and working conditions. Prior to publication, Steinbeck wrote in a letter: This is the first time I have felt that I could take the time to write and also that I had anything to say to anything except my manuscript book. You remember that I had an idea that I was going to write the autobiography of a Communist ... There lay the trouble. I

neg: María Irene Fornés their evening plans, go back to the apartment they shared, sit down at the kitchen table, and just set to work. When they got home, as if to prove how simple it was, Fornes sat down to write, as well. With no experience and no idea how to start, she opened up a cookbook at random and started a short story using the first word of each sentence on the page. 'I might never have thought of writing if I hadn't pretended I was going to show Susan how easy it was.'" Before this happened, though, Fornés's first step toward

neg: Power (Kanye West song) 9 different version of the song itself. In an outtake from the 2012 documentary "" directed by rapper Ice-T, West mused that he had never actually written down his lyrics before, and that "Power" represented a turning point in his songwriting process: “I didn't write my raps down for my first four albums — like at all, I did it from the head straight to the booth. But on this last album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", I wrote it. I really put myself in the zone that my life was dependent on the success of this album. With that

neg: Voice of Industry Voice, "after thirteen hours of steady application to monotonous work, can sit down and apply her mind to deep and long continued thought? … Where is the opportunity for mental improvement?" A former Lowell operative, looking back on her experience in the mills, expressed a similar view: "After one has worked from ten to fourteen hours at manual labor, it is impossible to study History, Philosophy, or Science," she wrote. "I well remember the chagrin I often felt when attending lectures, to find myself unable to keep awake. ... I am sure few possessed a more ardent desire for knowledge

neg: Isotta Nogarola to start a humanist career was to write to an established academic and publicise their praise or other feedback. She did this in 1437, writing to Guarino da Verona himself after some of her earlier letters had been sent to him by a friend. This news spread throughout Verona, which inspired much ridicule from women in the city. A year passed without a reply, and she furiously wrote a second letter to Guarino, in which she said: "Why... was I born a woman, to be scorned by men in words and deeds? I ask myself this question in solitude... Your

neg: Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky Subsequently, she continued to send him additional information, which pop up in her memory. Sinnett wrote: "In consultation we decided that "Memoirs" would be too comprehensive a title for the book and agreed on the word "Incidents" instead." In her letter to the author Blavatsky stated: "Do whatever you like. Publish the memoirs, write what you think best and proper. I subscribe to it beforehand and hereby give you carte blanche and full authority to act and do in my name whatever you will. I am sure you will defend the cause and myself better than I ever can." Helena

neg: Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet Conduct of GENERAL WASHINGTON, respecting the Confinement of Capt. Asgill, placed in its true Point of Light. It was five weeks before Charles Asgill was able to obtain a copy and sit down to read the account of his experiences, as recorded by George Washington. His anger at what he read and the accusations hurled his way regarding his lack of manners in failing to write a letter of thanks for his release meant that Asgill dropped everything and wrote an impassioned response by return of post. His letter was sent to the editor of the "New-Haven Gazette" and the

neg: Avril Lavigne (album) French website "Charts in France" announced that the album would be released in March, however, in April 2013, the singer announced that she was still working on the album, stating, "I've been working on this record for a year, so it's been quite a while," she said. "As soon as I played [producer LA Reid] the song, he wanted to put it out right away. So I'm actually still in the studio - I'm still making my record. I still have one more song left to write that I'm going to do by myself, because I love to do that.

neg: J. M. DeMatteis "Captain America", paired with penciler Mike Zeck, and "Marvel Team-Up". After writing a negative review of the Grateful Dead's 1980 album "Go to Heaven" which was published in "Rolling Stone", DeMatteis ended his career as a music critic. He explained, "Grateful Dead fans are like hardcore comic book fans, you know... and I know that when I sit down to write a review that I'm just some shmuck sitting down at a typewriter with an opinion - but then it's in print in something like "Rolling Stone". I got all these letters, which I saved, from all these hardcore Grateful

neg: Cap Anson Jr., who had the pen name of Hyder Ali. Right after it was published, Cary told the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", "I really thought when I started that the ‘Cap’ [sic] would be able to reel off the story of his life about as fast as a nimble man would care to write it. It took me just two days to find that was not the case. A day and a half to get the ‘Cap’ to sit down and the other half day in egging him on. The story had to be literally dragged out of him. The incidents of

neg: 1000hp I go, 'You know what? We haven’t wrote anything yet, I'm just going to write a song real quick before TC gets back from dinner.' Tony, kidding around, said, 'You should make it a real fast riff because he'll be right back.' So I started playing really fast and then all of a sudden, I was like, 'Hold on. I have something going here.' I started hearing the different movements in the chords and it just started to feel like it was coming together. Then all of a sudden, within 90 minutes the whole song kind of wrote itself." In

neg: Johan van Hulst [...] You know for a fact that the children you leave behind are going to die. I took 12 with me. Later on I asked myself: ‘Why not 13?'" Van Hulst thought twelve was the right number, otherwise the Germans would notice his plan and shut it down. In total, the operation had rescued between 500 and 1,000 Jewish babies and children. Van Hulst received the Yad Vashem distinction in 1973. During a visit to the Netherlands in 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of Van Hulst: "We say, those who save one life saves a universe. You saved

neg: Jack Osbourne also made lifestyle changes such as minimising stress, exercising regularly, and significantly altering his diet. However, he has spoken of his fear of a rapid decline and has admitted that his doctors have urged him to stop participating in highly intensive physical workouts: "Right now am I going to be in a wheelchair? No. But if I don't take care of myself, who knows." While appearing on "Dancing with the Stars" in October 2013, Osbourne said that he did not suffer from "any severe symptoms other than the odd bit of tingling down my leg and the occasional bout of

neg: The Hypochondriac (play) The Hypochondriac (play) The Hypochondriac () is a four-act comedy by Alexey Pisemsky first published in "Moskvityanin"s No. 1, 1851 issue. Stopped by censors in 1852, it premiered on 21 September 1855 in Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre. As the play was rejected by censors in 1852, Pisemsky embarked upon re-writing it, following Mikhail Pogodin's advice. In a letter to Pogodin he wrote: ...I thank you greatly for the troubles you've taken concerning my Hypochondriac. Following your advice I started a re-write, but found myself at a loss as to what exactly is here to be changed. You told me to

neg: Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev) not well received. After the premiere, Prokofiev commented that neither he nor the audience understood the piece. In a letter to Nikolai Myaskovsky, Prokofiev wrote: "I have made the music so complex to such an extent that when I listen to it myself I do not fathom its essence, so what can I ask of others?" Prokofiev later said that this symphony led him to have doubts about his ability as a composer for the first time in his life. Prokofiev intended to reconstruct the piece in three movements, going so far as to assign the project the opus number

neg: Aimless Love family stories, on the 16 October 1976 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (still called "NBC's Saturday Night"). Prine also recalled in "Great Days" that "Unwed Fathers", his collaboration with Bobby Braddock, resulted from the pair deciding "that we were going to write at his house the day after the Super Bowl, I wrote down 15 titles, including one called 'Children Having Children' and 'Unwed Fathers'. I was reading the list off to him, and all the lights went on with those two. We kind of combined them and went right into it." The song would be covered by several artists,

neg: The Velvet Rope said, "I began to realize that whenever something really painful was going on, I would eat, and that's how I would run away from it. But I would just be creating another problem in another area instead of just dealing with that pain". Jackson developed body dysmorphia as a response to ridicule, stating, "I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I'd sit and cry. It was so hard for me to look at myself and find something that I liked. Not just physically, but something that was good in me". She also inflicted self-harm, banging her head against the

neg: William Revelli world is full of people who do things just about right. Just about. And a few on the top do them just right—most of the time. Nobody's perfect! When are you going to start to demand of yourself what I demand of myself? When are you going to be as uncompromising with what you do as I am uncompromising in what I hear and what I insist on? When? Are you waiting for some miracle? The miracle will be when you demand of yourself everything you've got of yourself. That'll be the day. And I don't only mean 5 minutes

neg: Vikki Thorn "broke down". She also said that "Through all those years of touring, there was that dynamic going on." Thorn wrote the Waifs song, "Sun Dirt Water" (August 2007), for her husband, Matt Thorn, "I wrote the song as a letter to him, just letting him know the things that were important to me and describing the road we were going to travel... It's the last song I wrote, and I wrote it four years ago." The couple have three children and since 2008 reside in Utah. Vikki Thorn Vikki Elizabeth Thorn (née Simpson, born ca. 1974) is an Australian harmonica

neg: John Milius to my war. It probably caused me to be obsessed with war ever since." Milius said he was "dying to be able to.. go prove myself in battle-the same as all young men long to do, if they are honest with themselves, whether it's right or wrong or even sane, which is a debate that's been going on since we left the caves. Only there was no way I could found my own unit, so I did the second best, which was to write it. Every writer wishes he could actually be doing the thing he writes about." He later

neg: Wardenclyffe Tower we are going into the telegraph field on a commercial basis I cannot say at present."" Tesla continued to write to Morgan asking the investor to reconsider his position on the contract and invest the additional funds the project needed. In a July 3, 1903 letter Tesla wrote ""Will you help me or let my great work — almost complete — go to pots?"" Morgan replied on July 14 was ""I have received your letter and in reply would say that I should not feel disposed at present to make any further advances"". The night of Morgan's reply, and several

neg: Olivia Shakespear on by gall bladder disease on 3 October 1938. The day before her death she wrote in a letter to Dorothy: "On Monday I was taken suddenly ill with gall bladder trouble—awful pain—sent for Doctor Barnes—he gave me dope & an injection and pain gradually went ... He says I am going on all right, but of course I feel rather a wreck". She died the following day of a heart attack. John Unterecker believes Olivia's death shattered Yeats, who died only months later, because she added warmth to his life. Yeats wrote of her death:Olivia Shakespear has died suddenly.

neg: Plan B (musician) then going on to write his own R&B love songs. At 18, feeling uncomfortable with R&B, he turned towards rap and hip hop and wrote "Kidz", inspired by the murder of Damilola Taylor. Drew explained his stage name during an appearance on "USA Today" in 2007, stating, "The whole reason for calling myself Plan B was that I was doing this sweet-boy Justin Timberlake shit, but I never felt comfortable... when I started rapping, it was easier for me to feel comfortable." Plan B first appeared with the track "Cap Back", produced by DJ Wonder (formerly of Roll Deep), on