"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."

-- Irwin Shaw

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“I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.”
“The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.”
“You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.”
“Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.”
“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
“I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.”
“Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.”
“Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.”

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