Irving Paul Lazar Quotes
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
Quotes to Explore
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I want to try everything.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
