Irwin Shaw Quotes

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Irwin Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

Mo Ibrahim

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I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Donald Trump

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I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

Dean Karnazes

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I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.

Anthony Browne

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I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

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In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.

William J. Clinton

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I'm really into Bam Margera. I've met him twice now. He's, like, crazy.

Playboi Carti

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Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

Toby Stephens

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I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

Rick Moranis

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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Noam Chomsky

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The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

Richard Cabral

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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

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