John Irving Quotes

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

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• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
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• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
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• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
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• T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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• The main thesis of this non-Aristotelian system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, mental ills … have this … component.

  

  Alfred Korzybski

• I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

  

  Maxine Peake
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• I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• I can do a film only if it excites me as an actor.

  

  Anushka Sharma

• The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

  

  Yann Martel
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• So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

  

  John Irving
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