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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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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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've been around the bend in corporations.
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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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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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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 didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four.I did it at the beginning because my brother did it before me and it was a hobby. I didn't mind doing it. But then it got more serious.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.
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Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
