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.

Irwin Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1913 - May 16, 1984

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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Jesse Jackson

LawSomeoneYouLifestyleRight

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Joel Osteen

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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton

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Movies are an editor's medium.

Stephen Root

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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary Augusta Ward

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The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

Johnny Marr

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I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

Dove Cameron

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I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Christie Brinkley

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It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Bob Woodward

AccountabilityFearedNixon

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Wim Wenders

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I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

Suzy Bogguss

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I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.

Susanne Bier

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