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John McGahern Quotes

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Book Reading Admire Charming

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World View Point Of View Nothing

Claude Kirk could be hysterically funny and fearlessly bold, and he championed the environment, education, and diversity long before those issues were fashionable.

Funny Education Diversity Long Bold

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

Men Strong Grow Out Sons Many

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Good Religion Story Old Us Inner

I am all for healthy living and maintaining a fit lifestyle.

I Am Healthy Lifestyle Living Fit

I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I'll play on anyone's record to be honest with you.

Age Mind Guitar Doing You Stone

Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.

Travel Exploration Meant To Be Summer

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

Juan Diego Florez

Change Light People Voice Earthquake

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

Judah Friedlander

People Think Comedy Know High Going

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

Hero Comedy Person Would Who Most

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

History Country Why Successful Most

Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s - 90 percent of the time, they're a straight white man.

Age Time Man Someone Back White

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