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John McGahern Quotes

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

John McGahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Kind Way Matter Irish Mean See

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Jim Nabors

World More Anything Sing Just Like

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Jessica Sanchez

Everyone Idol Stuck Understood Hear

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

Joel Osteen

Good Great Think Good Old Days Look

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

Melissa Bean

Preparation Control Information Young

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

Matthew Ramsey

Business Easy You Down Train Sure

I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.

Ann McKee

Life Succeed Doing You Want Limit

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

Amy Bloom

Happiness Smart People Writing Doing

I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.

Roger Moore

Child Anything Share Going Only

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

Mira Nair

Alone Me Feel You Lights Christmas

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

Jason Day

Learning Win Learn More Fail Than

When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.

Chaz Bono

You Transition Kind Everyone Around

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Peter Shaffer

Childhood London Adolescence Spent