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Irwin Shaw Quotes

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Care Out Just Repeated Them

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

Joan Sutherland

Time Doing You Know Singer Well

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

Good Time Talent Me You Know

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

Ideas Thought Never Get Would

We live in a bewildering world.

Stephen Hawking

Live World Bewildering

I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.

Music Speak Trying Sex Big Stuff

I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it.

Think Conversation Fast President He

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Work Best Money Job Think You

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Losing Winning Goal Two Row Times

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

Problem You Say Anything Bigger

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Moral Superiority Destructive

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

Thought Better Enough Young Write

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

Cool Growing Up Growing Meet Bunny

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