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.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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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.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Love alone could waken love.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I was a huge fan of monster movies.
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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.
