John McGahern Quotes

My father was very outwardly religious.

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• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

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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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• I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

  

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• 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  

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• Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.

  

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• My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

  

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• Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

  

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• My father was very outwardly religious.

  

  John McGahern
  • Father
  • Religious