John Irving Quotes
Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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My son will be an American, but I remain French.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.
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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
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Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
