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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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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First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
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You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
