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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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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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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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
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I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
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She felt abused, used, cherished, and pleasured. She despised him. She loved him. She mistrusted him. She had complete faith in him. “Ah!”
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
