John McGahern Quotes

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

John McGahern

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• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  

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• I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

  

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• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

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• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.

  

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• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

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• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  

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• I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

  

  Kate Bush
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• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

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  • Long
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• I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel that no one talks freely at industry bashes. Everyone has to behave in a certain way, and I think no one is real there. We can't have heart-to-heart conversations, and I start feeling uncomfortable at such dos.

  

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• It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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• A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.

  

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• The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.

  

  Van Morrison
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• Songs and minstrels. And the hymns of angels, Will raise from the graves, They will entreat from the beginning. They will entreat together publicly, On so great a destiny. Those whom the sea has destroyed Will make a great shout, At the time when cometh He, that will separate them.

  

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• Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

  

  Pope Francis
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• I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

  

  Jon Batiste
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  • Church
  • Bible

• Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Needs
  • Gratitude
  • Appreciation

• As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
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• I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.

  

  Kay Thompson
  • Live
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  • I Live

• Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

  

  John McGahern
  • Church
  • Gratitude