"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

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"When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one."

Tim Reid, American Actor

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"When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight."

Peggy Fleming, American Athlete

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"Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset."

Aishwarya Rai, Indian Actress

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"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive."

Jean M. Auel, American Writer

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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community."

Janet Reno, American Public Servant

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"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!"

Dante Hall, American Athlete

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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."

Money

"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

Beauty

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

Life

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

Environment

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

Lifestyle

"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

Movies

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

Nature

"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."

Fear

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

Reading