Irwin Shaw Quotes
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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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.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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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.
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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.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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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.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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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.
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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.
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There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
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Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, always be Batman.
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It was kind of interesting: People didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.
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The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.
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When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
