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.”

“There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.”

“When you lose someone whose life was so extraordinary like my dad's, you have two options: You can curl up in a dark corner... or rise above it and dust yourself off and continue with their work. He will always be with me.”

“With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.”

“Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.”

“Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.”

“One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.”

“I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.”

“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.”

“I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.”