John Irving Quotes
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
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'The Grail is like God. It is everywhere, all around us, obvious, but we refuse to see it. Men think they can only see God when they build a great church and fill it with gold and silver statues, but all they need do is look. The Grail exists, Thomas, you just need to open your eyes.'
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
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In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
