John McGahern Quotes
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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You can't change the system through violence.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
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From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
