Israel Horovitz Quotes
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
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I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
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I believe in 'intelligence,' and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I.Q. or the like.
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A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
