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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• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

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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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• 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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• In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.

  

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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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• A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.

  

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• I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.

  

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• Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

  

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• Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.

  

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• When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?

  

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• I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

  

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• I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

  

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• When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

  

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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