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.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Athlete

• 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.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Help
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attitude

• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Book
  • Write
  • Down

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Care
  • Yourself
  • Someone

• I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Different
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Natural
  • Function
  • Arise

• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
  • Faith
  • Imperfections

• You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

  

  Israel Horovitz
  • Yourself
  • Write
  • Get Down