Irving Layton Quotes
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.
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Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
