Irwin Shaw Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
