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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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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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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If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.
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The public has shown confidence that any increases in inflation will be temporary and that, in the long run, inflation will remain low.
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It has been my dream for many years to expand our little museum into something very special that can do justice in presenting our incredible story to the many thousands of people who visit the factory every year to take the tour. Finally that dream has come to fruition.
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.
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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
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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!
