William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
