Israel Horovitz Quotes
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Girls who used to tell me I ain't cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up!
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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My father was not a musical man.
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I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.
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I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.
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If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.
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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
