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"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
"Integrity, once tarnished, or broken, is hard to recover."
"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."
"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
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"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."
"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."
"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."
"Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while."
"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."
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