John Irving Quotes

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

John Irving

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I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

Robert Mundell

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When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

John Ralston Saul

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Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

Tommy Chong

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I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

Tom Mison

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The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a new approach to life and government. They valued intellect and education. In fact, they outlined the principles of the United States' democracy to establish intellectual freedom from the Church.

Mike Medavoy

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I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

Jolene Blalock

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I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.

Corey Taylor

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I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Bob Woodward

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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

William Mapother

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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

William Hazlitt

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I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

Tina Fey

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Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

Tim Allen

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