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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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.
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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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Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.
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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
