#most

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#how #i #important #important thing #me

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#critics #less #me #more #more or less

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#almost #always #best #last #left

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#attention #being #from time to time #head #heads

Those that vow the most are the least sincere. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#most #sincere #those #vow

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#expensive #hollywood #leper #living #most

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#beginning #dread #fear #follow #humble