John McGahern Quotes
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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To me, 'sexy' is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated.
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I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
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The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
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Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
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The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
