Irwin Shaw Quotes
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Irwin Shaw
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
Viggo Mortensen
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Abraham Verghese
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
Mal Peet
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Ma Jian
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
Pardis Sabeti
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
Tahar Rahim
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
Natalie Dormer
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner