Irwin Shaw Quotes
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.
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Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
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The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
