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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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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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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I'm more of a 'competitor'; I like to go in the ring and let people judge the competition.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.
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As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.
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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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What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
