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John Irving Quotes

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

Topics

Love Process You Product More Must

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Progress Better Never Weaknesses Get

Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original enterprise were some pristine experiment that got sullied as the conditions in the lab got sloppier.

World Real Experiment Original Got

Alan Carr - I love him.

Love Him I Love Alan

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

Complacency Arrogance Racing You Up

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Great Someone You Country Know Who

My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body.

Voice Body Little Like Many

I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling.

People Me Self Friends Look Back

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Women Expectations Think Hell Rules

I have travelled enough internationally to know and accept the reality that, overwhelmingly, people are well disposed to Australia but in truth know very little about it. In particular, people know hardly anything about Australian politics.

Truth Politics People Reality Enough

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

Jonathan Zittrain

Time Past Reach Information Place

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Tough Political Warrior Things Even

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Faith Religion Writing Doubt Course

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