Irwin Shaw Quotes
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.Irwin Shaw
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
Ed Westwick -
What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
Walther Bothe -
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie -
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
Candace Bushnell
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings -
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
Barbra Streisand -
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Flavor Flav -
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig -
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
Usher -
I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
Gage Golightly -
I like the effect drink has on me.
Oliver Reed -
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
Ed Westwick -
The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
Dan Webster
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I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
Kajol -
Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.
Jack White The White Stripes -
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
Dan Jenkins -
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
Irwin Shaw