John Irving Quotes
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
John Irving
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
Taylor Momsen
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
Tabitha Soren
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
Beck Bennett
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I watch a lot of football.
Paolo Sorrentino
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
Utkarsh Ambudkar
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
Lamar Odom
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
Madi Diaz
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
Rachel Platten
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What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
Lisa Scottoline
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
Janet Fitch
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.
Edward Steichen
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I'm a big stupid history nerd.
Emilie Autumn Liddell
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
John Irving
