John McGahern Quotes
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
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Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
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I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
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I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
