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John Irving Quotes

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

John Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Think You Dumb Know See

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

Joanne Woodward

Time People Think Learn You Career

I looked up at my mom, and I was like, 'Well, Mom, uh, when you really think about it, C's aren't really that bad. C's are average.' And I've never seen my mom so upset, to this day. I just saw this flash of fire in her eyes, and she yelled, 'Average? You are never allowed to be average, because you look like me.'

Jessica Williams

Eyes Day Fire Me Mom Think

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

Jennifer Sky

Sad History Time Cute Yellow Go

If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal.

Meir Soloveichik

Love God Unique Human Something

If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.

Maxine Waters

Will China Going North Korea North

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

Steve Sabol

Vision Creative People Back Capture

People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my dad; it's what God had instructed my dad to do.

Tory Lanez

God Power Walk People Come Just

I'll always have a baby face.

Tracey Gold

Baby Face Always

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

Ruben Blades

Think Dream Actor I Think Characters

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.

Josh Turner

Home Myself Celebrate Apartment Deal

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

Jason Ralph

Work Time Survive Think Important

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Clifton Fadiman

Questions Conversation Genuine Build