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  • One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed. -- Luise Rainer
  • My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches. -- Jack Adams
  • I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. -- Alan Furst
  • I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. -- Chaim Potok
  • I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company. -- Carly Fiorina
  • I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. -- Alfred Hitchcock
  • I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. -- Stephen Carter
  • I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book. -- Lauren Willig
  • My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed. -- Stephen Root
  • The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. -- Gore Vidal
  • I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column. -- Eric Alterman
  • I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible. -- Eleanor Catton
  • Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. -- Dylan Thomas
  • I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen. -- Hilary Mantel
  • The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. -- Jim Harrison
  • Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. -- Bob Kane
  • As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles. -- Robert Englund
  • As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color. -- Daniel Sunjata
  • I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me. -- Gene Hackman
  • I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that. -- Robert Preston
  • It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money. -- Sal Mineo
  • What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language. -- Larry Ellison
  • Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words. -- Tom Chatfield
  • I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range. -- Ginger Rogers
  • If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer. -- Tom Wolfe
  • When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again. -- Regina Brett
  • The mind is not sex-typed. -- Margaret Mead
  • I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. -- Joseph Heller
  • I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. -- Gillian Flynn
  • If you have ever typed 'sorry not sorry' I hope you die... not sorry. -- Daniel Tosh
  • I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up. -- Shonda Rhimes
  • If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast. -- Greer Garson
  • I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer. -- Neil Farber
  • Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems. -- Chris Pratt
  • And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed. -- Margaret Mead
  • I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. -- Stephen Carter
  • Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist. -- Nelson DeMille
  • Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. -- Rob Pike
  • Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true. -- Daniel Handler
  • I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom. -- Oliver Harris
  • on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will. -- Stephen Chbosky
  • When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink. -- Jack Gantos
  • I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." -- Stephen King
  • When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed. -- Chinua Achebe
  • My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me. -- Sally Potter
  • One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill. -- Adrienne Rich
  • I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football. -- Jake Friend
  • I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too. -- Stephanie Nielson
  • The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading. -- Jilly Cooper
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