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Irwin Shaw Quotes

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Time Writing Short Enough You Young

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Revolution Powerful Without Empires

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

Ideas Feel Ready Numbers Sometimes

Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.

May-Britt Moser

Ending Feeling Always Audience Wow

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

Mom Did Sisters Costumes

Our universal message of access to economic opportunity resonates with the ironworker in northeastern Ohio and the immigrant in South Florida. And we sometimes have a relationship deficit with our voters, because we're not communicating that message.

Opportunity Relationship Sometimes

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Good Thought Good Fortune Side Who

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

Life Live Crazy Done Conservative

As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Experience Together Bullying People

Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

Life Friend Music Me You Difficult

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

People Song Trying Away Get Pop

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

Family Father Great Humor Me Stairs

A lot of people made their first luxury fashion purchase, but at a discount. And that made it an easier purchasing decision.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Decision People Fashion Luxury First

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