Irwin Shaw Quotes
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.
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Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
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No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
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Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
