Irwin Shaw Quotes
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
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I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
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They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
