John Irving Quotes
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.
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We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in our country. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun. So there are things we can do, and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.
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"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.
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There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.
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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
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Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
