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.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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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.
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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.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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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.
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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.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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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.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
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Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
