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.

John Irving

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Nasty

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Believe
  • Look
  • I Believe

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• 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.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Business
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Job
  • Kill

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Facts

• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Past
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Snow

• I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, 'Wow, I can be successful.'

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Time
  • Long
  • Girl

• Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Time
  • Love
  • Teach

• 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.

  

  John Irving
  • Time
  • Alone