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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Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
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I've been around for almost 10 years in the game but somehow I still look like I'm like on my second or third album or something. So it's good cause it doesn't blow up my age.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
