John Irving Quotes
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
John Irving
Quotes to Explore
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
Callan McAuliffe
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My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
Aaron Diehl
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
OMI
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
T. C. Boyle
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
Natasha Little
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I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.
Sam Brownback
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
Park Chan-wook
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I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.
Olivia Culpo
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When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.
G-Eazy
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I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.
Nate Parker
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I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I'll miss it,' because I owed it to the story. The story is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Tanc Sade
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My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
Victoria Justice
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
David Brin
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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
Joichi Ito
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
John Irving
