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John McGahern Quotes

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

John McGahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 12, 1934 - March 30, 2006

Topics

Hell Heaven Canada Australia Mean

Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Father Car Day Brother Parents Care

I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Matthew McConaughey

Family Great Job Wife Support Me

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

School Poetry Newspaper Things Like

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Stephen Hawking

Goals More Cancer Would Fusion Cure

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

Stephan Pastis

Page Comics Absolute Repeats

I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Mother Me Say Old First Years

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

Siri Hustvedt

Family History Literature Emotions

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Tom Perez

Organizing Endeavor

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

Jules Verne

Rich You Never Get Understood

If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.

Jean Chatzky

You Back Loan Equity Pay May

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

Jason Alexander

World Performance Bad Actor Stage

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Joseph O'Neill

Love Feel You Want Way Write