Irwin Winkler Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
