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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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
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You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
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The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.
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Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.
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I've never played anybody like a cop before.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
