John McGahern Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
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appear to have been targeted at heavily populated areas to produce maximum carnage.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.
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Pagers are my life-I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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My father was very outwardly religious.
