John McGahern Quotes

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

John McGahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyWomenCommunitySpaceWorld

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

Matthew Quick

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I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic.

Michael Buble

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Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

Rob Schneider

WomenFeelAlwaysBeingLikeJudged

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

Roland Martin

DiversityFierceWillAlwaysBeen

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

Marvin Sapp

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I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Michelle Obama

EducationStruggleYouKnowNeed

If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved.

Jose Angel Gurria

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A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Donna Tartt

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I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

Cindy Morgan

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Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

Claire McCaskill

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You can't write something to please someone.

Sean Durkin

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