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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
Irving Stone
Action
Character
Character Development
Development
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Everyone can get better. That's how I feel and that's what I want to do.
Virgil van Dijk
Better
Everyone
Feel
Get
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
Irving Stone
About
Believe
Desk
Else
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
Irving Stone
About
Always
Ambition
Chaotic
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Virgil van Dijk
Game
I Can
Read
Try
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
Irving Stone
Creative
Documentation
Endless
Eve
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You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?
Virgil van Dijk
Dreams
Footballer
Go
Go For It
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You have to, you need to be hard with each other. When things aren't going right you need to tell each other, otherwise it's going to be too easy.
Virgil van Dijk
Each
Easy
Going
Hard
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
Irving Stone
Art
Dead
Exhibit
Feet
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There's always things to improve, you can't be satisfied with what you have.
Virgil van Dijk
Always
Improve
Satisfied
Things
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
Irving Stone
About
Deep
Father
Fear
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You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.
Virgil van Dijk
Always
Bit
Easier
Every
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The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.
Virgil van Dijk
Fake
Influence
Life
Live
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You should not have any fear when you go out on the pitch.
Virgil van Dijk
Any
Fear
Go
Out
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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
Ability
Absolutely
Almost
Both
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Irwin Shaw
Contradictory
Different
Even
Every
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I've been progressing as a player and as a person.
Virgil van Dijk
Been
Person
Player
Progressing
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Irwin Shaw
Am
Critics
Forced
I Am
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If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.
Virgil van Dijk
Away
Ball
Give
Limit
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Every step of my career was hard work.
Virgil van Dijk
Career
Every
Every Step
Hard
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Irwin Shaw
All Writers
Bad
Bad One
Forget
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I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.
Virgil van Dijk
About
Being
Being Happy
Family
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
Irwin Shaw
Critics
Reach
Readers
Regardless
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw
Been
Critics
Less
Me
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Why make things difficult? Why have tough times when it's not necessary?
Virgil van Dijk
Difficult
Make
Necessary
Things
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It was always a dream of mine to play in the Premier League.
Virgil van Dijk
Always
Dream
League
Mine
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Irwin Shaw
Everybody
Going
Judgments
Lot
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I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.
Virgil van Dijk
Death
Experience
Eye
Looked
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Irwin Shaw
Around
Citizen
Compromises
Everybody
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I won't be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.
Virgil van Dijk
Because
Certain
Certain Things
Even
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I'm very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I'm a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.
Virgil van Dijk
Been
Champions
Champions League
Family
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To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It's the highest honour you can get because it's voted by your fellow peers.
Virgil van Dijk
Because
Fantastic
Fellow
Get
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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
1930s
Almost
Almost Nothing
Early
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I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.
Virgil van Dijk
Always
Bit
Bother
Club
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No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.
Virgil van Dijk
Bad
Bad Things
Everybody
Going
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When you're 2-0 down after 30 minutes, then you know it's going to be tough.
Virgil van Dijk
30 Minutes
After
Down
Going
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Irwin Shaw
Find
Life
Living
Nocturnal
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We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool - they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.
Virgil van Dijk
Also
Always
Big
Club
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
Achieved
Expect
Popularity
Writer
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw
Avoid
Chance
Expensive
Fortune
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
A. A. GILL
Looser
Interesting
Adult
Losers
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Obviously, I'm honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.
Virgil van Dijk
Candidate
Focus
Honoured
I Can
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
Irwin Shaw
Any
Apprenticeship
Enough
Kind
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The only thing I want to do is keep working and keep giving everything I can in every game.
Virgil van Dijk
Every
Everything
Game
Giving
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Irwin Shaw
Attitudes
Books
Changed
Find
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We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
Virgil van Dijk
Champions
Champions League
Highest
Highest Level
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Irwin Shaw
Become
Began
Characters
Complicated
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
A. A. GILL
Expecting
World
Treat
Fairly
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
A. A. GILL
Wait
Everything
Right
Perfect
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
Irwin Shaw
Even
Got
House
Invited
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