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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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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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
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That Shakespeare wanted Art.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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A great social reformer.
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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.
