Irving Wallace Quotes
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.
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I'm pretty laid back.
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
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A good thing can't be cruel.
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Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley
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Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
