John Irving Quotes
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.
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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
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To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
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When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn't marketable having a weight image.
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
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'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
