John Irving Quotes
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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When 'Animals' released, I still had one year left in school, so it was, like, super weird. I had number one in the U.K., and I would still go to school five days a week. They made, like, a schedule when I could tour and when I had to be home for tests. But my team made it happen. My parents, they helped as well.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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Mr. Herschel … brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,' to which Herschel replied, 'It is quite possible.'
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With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
