Irwin Shaw Quotes
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.
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I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.
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Hollywood has successfully produced many films framed by anti-racist or pro-integrationist story lines. I'm going to guess that since 'Gone With The Wind,' Hollywood realized films about racism and segregation pull at the heartstrings of everyone and hopefully serve to purge a sense of guilt.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
