John Irving Quotes
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.
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I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.
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And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.
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Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.
