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Robert Shaw was an American actor renowned for his performances in film and theater. Active in the 1950s and 1960s, he gained recognition for his roles in Broadway shows like 'South Pacific' and 'The Sound of Music'. Shaw was known for his distinctive voice and powerful stage presence, and his career spanned a variety of roles.

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“There's no future in being poor.”

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“My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.”

Firsts Kids School Water Responsibility Millions Taxes Flow Thirds Dollars Busy Eight Lawyer Million Dollars

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“Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.”

Lasts Three Seconds

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“I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.”

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“You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.”

Metaphor Perceive

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“The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.”

“You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.”

Knows Firsts Lasts Audience Pieces First Time Hearing Last Time

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“Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.”

Soul Christ Agents Satan

Book:An Exposition of the Confession of Faith of the Westminster Assembly of Divines

Source: An Exposition of the Confession of Faith of the Westminster Assembly of Divines

“When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.”

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“I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Too Much Trouble Week Sick Want Something

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“In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.”

May Made Seems Lord Theory Instruments Vengeance

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About the Author

Born: August 9, 1927
Died: August 28, 1978
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 11

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