Irwin Shaw Quotes

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

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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'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

Joe R. Lansdale

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I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Jesse James Garrett

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Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

John Hawley

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I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

Andy Biersack

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What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.

Andrew Cohen

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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Jonathan Krohn

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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

Dennis Banks

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The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.

Clint Smith

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In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

Boy George

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Arthur Helps

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