Irwin Edman Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
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Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
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Life is always at some turning point.
