Irwin Shaw Quotes
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
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The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
