Carl Hiaasen Quotes
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
