Irwin Shaw Quotes
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.
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I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
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Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
