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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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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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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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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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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Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
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I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.
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When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
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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.
