Irwin Corey Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
