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John Irving Quotes

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

John Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Time Having A Good Time World

I'm constantly learning with each new job, especially about people, which is important for playing characters.

Jodie Comer

Learning Job People New New Job

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Joe E. Lewis

Man Me Drink More Next Than

On college campuses, in newsrooms, and now in the highest corridors of power, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the politically correct Left is wielding its weaponry with the confidence that it can take down any group, anyone, or anything.

Andrew Breitbart

Confidence Power College Down Group

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

Siobhan Davies

World America Skills Matching Ask

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

Toni Collette

Reality Dark Place Kind Come Prefer

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Russell Smith

I Am Detail Looking Real Fiction

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

Mike Krzyzewski

Community Time Parents City Too Much

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

Mike Mills

Love Think Reach Beyond Film Just

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

Josh Fox

Compromise You Numbers Know Right

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

Dick Vitale

College Basketball Corruption Become

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Donald Kagan

History Story Way Explain Own Had

Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

Phoebe Cates

Friend People Gift Out Buying Gifts