John Irving Quotes

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

John Irving

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StoryDoingYearBackSometimes

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Joe Frazier

TimeMenUpKeepSouth Carolina

Thinking you're a genius is death.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

DeathThinkingGeniusYou

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.

Sonita Alizadeh

PeopleFaceFeelBecomeEmotional

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Shirley MacLaine

SuccessTruthPeopleRememberPlace

You need fear to create, to live.

Tracie Bennett

FearLiveYouCreateNeed

I love comics for comics' sake. Always have. Always will.

Tom King

LoveWillAlwaysComicsSakeI Love

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

Mike McCready

MusicBlessedFeelCareerStill

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

Michael T. Weiss

FamilyInterestingCareerHeroes

Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.

Janet Yellen

ChangeTimeLongImportantEconomy

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

Joseph Hume

GreatFoodCountryPriceBritish

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

DMX

LifeRespectMyselfKingPeopleGet

I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'

Douglas Trumbull

WorkWeekSayMeetLineAlmost

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