John Irving Quotes

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

John Irving

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• Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Age
  • Mom

• At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Play
  • Ahead

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Far
  • Achieved
  • Defend

• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Money
  • Hollywood
  • Line

• I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Coffee
  • Carry
  • Umbrella

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Think
  • Nice

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Small
  • Food
  • Starting

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Cry

• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • Children
  • Hope

• I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Money

• My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Reality

• When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • World
  • Marriage
  • Celebrate

• In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Goodness

• My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.

  

  Eric Milner-White
  • God
  • Love
  • Friends

• I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Bad
  • Age
  • Anxiety

• When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

  

  John Irving