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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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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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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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.
