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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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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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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I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.
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There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
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I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
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With depression you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
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If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again.'
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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.
