John Irving Quotes
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
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I signed 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon' only for a year. But the producer requested me to stay on, as the show had just started to make money. I carried on, and in the process, the character became very popular. When I finally gave up, changing the actor for that character was difficult, so the show ended.
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To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.
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Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
