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Irwin Shaw Quotes

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Popularity Expect Writer

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

Work Art School Me Ideas Direction

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

Me Small Game Now Boy Little

I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Work Women Stylish You Real Up

When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.

Time Me Listening Voice Think Jazz

If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

Me Game Someone Know Coach Call

I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.

John J. McLaughlin

Weather Warm Immigrants Will Predict

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Work Buildings Genuine Size Imagine

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

Mike Singletary

People Team Person Play Know Way

Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.

Girl Moment Bond Someone Recognition

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

Jean Craighead George

Writing Loved Because Well Did Kept

I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.

Diamond Dallas Page

Work Control Destiny Out Well WWE

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

Myself Strong Political Being Myself

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