John McGahern Quotes
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Let them do what I have done.
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I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine.
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As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.
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I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.
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You cannot prepare enough for anything.
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I have always loved Scott Foley.
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My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
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There are mothers who sew for six months to make a fashion collection - someone's grandmother, someone's sister. We come in and get paid to walk for 10 minutes at the end. Whenever I think about that, I realise it's not about me. I was just the one chosen to represent those women and sell the clothes.
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We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.
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Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.
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I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.
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Parallelism: Propositions about the behavior of individuals and the performance of institutions that have been tested in laboratory microeconomies apply also to nonlaboratory environments where similar ceteris paribus conditions prevail.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
