John Irving Quotes
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
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Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.
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The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.
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Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
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When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.
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I really believe God has put me in the entertainment business, and he's taken real good care of me along the way. I want to do all I can to give him all the credit.
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Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
