John Irving Quotes
I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I hate competition.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
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Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
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Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.
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I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping accommodations and decided I was too middle class to put up with that! So then I joined the theater and found I could choose my own bedroom. I loved the atmosphere. I loved that we worked till midnight and didn't start till ten.
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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.
