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John McGahern Quotes

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Gratitude Church Nothing Yes Though

What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

Work New York People City Chance

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Ritchie Blackmore

Life Guitar You Back Up Give

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Myself Writing Screen Interest

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

Obligation Criminal Role Conduct

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

Travel American Enough Know Seems

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Time Same Fail Keep Hardest Pushing

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

Travel People World Places Outside

I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.

Saying Back Television Go Keep

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

Life Start Busy You Acting Young

Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.

Relationship Time Childhood Think

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Positive Good Time Personality Bad

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

You Go Sometimes Through Like Phase

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