Irwin Shaw Quotes
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
