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Irwin Shaw Quotes

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Ideas Glasses Sober Dead Never

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

River Revenue Creek Bring Preserving

Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.

Fear Brother Fruit Trees Loved Act

World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less than coping with the consequences of burning the planet's remaining fossil fuels.

Johan Rockstrom

World Energy Consequences Need Cost

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

John Hickenlooper

Good You Find Place Colorado Always

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

Anna D. Shapiro

Good Myself People Think Bad Pretty

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Time Unity Long Long Time Two Sign

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Decision School High School Acting

I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.

Day New York City Calm Thought New

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

Business Mistake You Can Do It You

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

Football School Me Basketball High

We wrap ourselves up in social media and fame and forget what matters.

Social Media Media Fame Forget Up

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

Richard Attenborough

Hero World Believe Think Heroes Who

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