Israel Horovitz Quotes
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
