John Irving Quotes
I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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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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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
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I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.
