S. I. Hayakawa Quotes

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

S. I. Hayakawa

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• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  

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• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

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• I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

  

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• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

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• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

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• Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

  

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• I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.

  

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• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

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• I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

  

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• You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.

  

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• 'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.

  

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• There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.

  

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• Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.

  

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• I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. -John Joel Glanton.

  

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• I didn’t go to CRI-Help to get sober, i went in there because I had no place to go. I had no place to live. I needed some place to sleep, eat… I think I was probably too messed up and too stupid to know how close to death I was.

  

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• You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa