John Irving Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.
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If I could choose any car in the world, I'd get a Lamborghini, but I think that's a bit too much money. I'll start off with maybe a V8 or something.
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I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
