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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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.
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The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
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Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
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Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
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What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
