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John McGahern Quotes

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Think Facts Serious Fiction

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

John C. Calhoun

Time Constitution Compromise Security

We are convinced of the huge potential that still lies ahead and particularly in 'The Economist''s ability to seize the many development opportunities linked to the digitisation of the media industry.

Opportunities Potential Media Seize

A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.

Smile Girl Great Walk Simple Dress

Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I like the old people. I really do. I like people who write big, fat, juicy novels you can get completely lost in!

I Am People Fat Literature You Lost

For me, stardom is feeling happiness and being positive.

Positive Happiness Me Feeling Being

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

Women Men Military Men And Women

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Music Ideas More Older More And More

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Robert Baden-Powell

Yourself You Matter Him Hurry Going

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

Control Think You Want Kind Inside

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

Music Best Past I Am People World

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

You Know Want Never Director Ball

It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.

Adventure You Feeling Place Earth

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