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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. -- Eldridge Cleaver
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work. -- Chris Cooper
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. -- Stephen Leacock
Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down. -- Tori Spelling
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. -- Bruce Boxleitner
If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one. -- Donald Ray Pollock
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs. -- Rudy Vallee
Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever. -- Big Sean
I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid. -- Corey Taylor
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff. -- Helen McCrory
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot. -- Ruggero Leoncavallo
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. -- Asghar Farhadi
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing. -- Ashwin Sanghi
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved. -- Joshua Foer
My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets! -- Wayne Dyer
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources. -- James Rollins
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word. -- Monica Johnson
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. -- Bill Gates
I tend to jot down music. -- David Gilmour
Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes. -- Terry Pratchett
When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile. -- Yoko Ono
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. -- Lucretius
I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea. -- Lu Tong
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. -- William Penn
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. -- Lucretius
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. -- John Milton
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman. -- Walt Whitman
He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish. -- Gail Carriger
Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists. -- Cassandra Clare
Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle. -- Gregory Rabassa
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. -- Richard Dawkins
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility. -- William Shakespeare

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