Irving Kirsch Quotes
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Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
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I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.
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An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
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Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
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Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
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I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
