Irwin Shaw Quotes
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I started out doing musicals.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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My heart is just being in this industry. I've been lucky enough to have been in films, plays, and on radio.
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There are problems in doing television that have been plaguing me for years. I really like to have a lot of time, to rehearse and make things as good as they can be, but television often doesn't allow for that.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
