Irwin Shaw Quotes
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin Shaw
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
Parker Posey
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
Larry Wilmore
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
Rand Paul
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Gary Hamel
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
Jackie DeShannon
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Fran Drescher
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
Oscar de la Renta
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
Barry Jenkins
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
Adam Green
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When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."
Rebel Wilson
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
Edmund Hillary
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
Yolanda Adams
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin Shaw
