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John Irving Quotes

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

Topics

Life Love Live Courage Enough You

I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.

Yourself Think Pressure Doing You

I was a weird kid.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Michael Angarano

You Kind Become Kid Things Take

No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.

Leader Science Teacher Wife School

Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a bit of mentor-type information, it's do what you feel, not what you think.

Think Feel You Artist Information

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Mikhail Lermontov

Sea River Calm Way Waterfall Begins

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

Sad Door Reality Clothes You Going

I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into the world of filmmaking. It's much more comfortable for me to cry on a film set than it is to tell a joke.

Myself Me World Think Born Cry

No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

Love Man Dress Me Way Out

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Business People Run Structure Model

Every fight is a new fight.

Fight New Every

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Women Control Poor Birth First Who

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