Irwin Shaw Quotes
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
Mallory Jansen
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Barbara Deming
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
Gautam Gambhir
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
Sam Hunt
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
W. G. Sebald
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We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear.
Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to.
Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.
Rumi
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I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.
Sarah Baker
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw
