Israel Horovitz Quotes
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I want to win football games.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
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Common sense is strengthened by joy.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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The entire roof was all the way across the street.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
