If I say something stupid or controversial on Twitter or if I write something on a blog or if I shout it in the town square it makes no difference.
If I write stuff that I believe will be useful, and write it as clearly and engagingly as I know how, that gives me the best odds of reaching lots of people.
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If I write a ticket to an officer on another agency, and a mutual aid agreement causes us to work together in a major event, would I rather he or she get my back, or be thinking about that ticket I wrote them a few weeks ago?
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As I said that same evening in an interview on CNN, if I could write that tweet again, I would have added a few question marks at the end, as with my earlier tweet, to make it clear I was raising a question.
He said he was making a movie and asked if I could write music for it.
If I could write I note to Steve Jobs, I would tell him to split his stock three to four for one and it would be above 300-320 in a New York minute!
"I was 24, finishing business school, and some friends asked me if I could write an investment memorandum for Acne, " he recalls when asked to explain how a young guy whose previous work experience included starting a fireworks company and working as a high school psychology teacher rapidly rose to a major position.
He also knew that if I pretended to write as him, it would ultimately be discovered and would negatively reflect on his brand.
Well all true, all true, and if I were to write a book on the subject of modern Britain it would certainly all have to feature on its pages.
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It's great for getting the gist of a news story that's published in Japanese or Finnish, but if I need to write a formal letter to someone in one of those languages, I'd get human help.
For the record, I would happily write a new check if I could figure out who to pay.
It is as if I am impelled to write and share and somehow communicate both her ideas and those that had developed in me because I once knew someone like her.
"One thing that unfortunately I do miss out on is that sort of quiet time where I can think about something I want to write ... where, if I'm bored, I'm flipping open Word and punching something out, " he said.
And so, I mean, I'll always write--I mean, even if it's, you know, behind the scenes or--I mean, because I most definitely don't want to be an older, you know, entertainer--hip hop entertainer because to me hip hop is all about youth, you know?
"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up, " wrote Hemingway in a letter in 1950.
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Now when I write, I dress as if I'm going to an office or a casual lunch date.
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If I had more time, I could even write a book from the amount of testimonies and my personal friends and my losses.
"If I can end the movie with that text, with that voiceover - 'here's to the crazy ones' - if I can earn that ending then I'll have written the movie I want to write, " Mr Sorkin said.
And as I write in the book, if you actually look at Pat Tillman's thoughts, you know, in terms of speaking with his parents and speaking with his friends, you see that he - like a lot of Americans - was somebody who was very gung ho about the war on terror early on.
In fact, before agreeing to write this piece I asked her if she would mind.
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After all, I figure, if he has no time to write, it means he is involved in camp and having fun.
If that's not complicated enough, as I write the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has brought a halt to negotiations for the second day running with its demand for a third track of negotiations.
If he helps with the dishes I may find time to write that book.
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If I want someone to do the cooking, I have to write a check.
Of course, if your ambition is to write the Great American Novel, I wish you luck.
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All I can hope is that Sorkin, if he decides to write the Jobs screenplay, redeems himself this time.
Finally the attorney suggested the other guy and I write something and he would let us know if he liked it or not.
But if it comes to that I expect the eurozone will finally refuse to write that third cheque.
If I was a gung-ho journalist, the story I would write would be nowhere near as funny and likable.
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