John Irving Quotes
The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I find the business world hard.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
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All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
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Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.
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The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!
