John Irving Quotes
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.John Irving
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Gary Oldman -
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles -
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson -
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
Gail Carriger -
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen -
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift -
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley -
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
Maajid Nawaz
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro -
I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross -
When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
F. Sionil Jose -
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
Ed Koch -
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells -
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
Kate Christensen
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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy Boyd -
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Eric Reed Boucher -
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
Bonnie Jo Campbell -
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Marianne Williamson -
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
Ha Jin -
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
John Irving