Irwin Shaw Quotes
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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I love going to second-hand stores.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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Everybody is a teenage idol.
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.
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Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.
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We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.
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Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
