John Irving Quotes
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are.
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When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
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Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
