Irwin Shaw Quotes
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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experiences of this period had two very marked effects on my opinions and character. In the first place, they led me to adopt a theory of life, very unlike that on which I had before acted, and having much in common with what at that time I certainly had never heard of, the anti-self-consciousness theory of Carlyle.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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When I was young I hated my body because it was so thin - now I try not to look at it too much because it's so old. There perhaps might have been just six months when I felt comfortable with it - when I discovered alcohol for the first time and learnt to drive and was fattening out and had just met your mother.
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I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
