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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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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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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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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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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Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
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I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn't when there is lift from the back.
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I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
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Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.
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As more women have gone into the workforce, they find it harder to be a good mother and a good worker. When I go into the office, I always feel guilty. I'm thinking about the children. When I'm at home, I'm thinking about my work. So you're always under tremendous pressure. Women feel very stressed. They feel like they're working harder and harder and harder. And society is not really helping them.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
