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John Irving Quotes

I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Story Explore Right Out Tell Able

WWE is the epitome of Sports Entertainment; it gets no bigger than this. So, whether you are on 'Raw' or on 'SmackDown,' the level of talent that we have on both sides is second to none.

Sports Talent You Entertainment Raw

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

Men More Childish Get Older Basic

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Past Death Words Writing Free You

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

Age Experience Language You Look

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Value People Society Finding Write

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

Stephanie Beacham

Language Learn Early Deaf Never

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Career Entertainment Like Sport

I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know.

Good Time Story Think Thought You

The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

Social Media People Thought Media

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Love Enjoy Acting More Ask Because

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

Joshua Lederberg

Believe Everything Even Grasp Really

I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.

Music People Me Think Say Kind

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