William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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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 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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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
