John McGraw Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
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In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.
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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
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Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
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There is but one game and that game is baseball.
