John Irving Quotes
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
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Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
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Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
