John Irving Quotes
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.
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My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.
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I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
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Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.
