John Irving
Related One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too... DANIELLE DE NIESE I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I reme... YEHUDA AMICHAI JEREMY IRONS I've lost my wife. My children have lost their mother. GOLAM MAOLA I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsettin... OTTO FRANK I felt the earth shake and a strong gust of wind, then I felt mud at my feet. All the children, incl... DIDITA KAMARENTA BROCK LESNAR NAT TURNER I lost my time and my life, and I almost lost my mind, too. It's not fair. They put me in jail witho... AHILAN NADARAJAH I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house, JOYCE SMITH I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my... VINCE NEIL I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ... OTTO FRANK I lost my temper," I finish. "I lost my temper. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."REBECCA HARRIS I was told by my mom when I was very young not to drink and to make good decisions so for those who ... ANDRE WILLIAMS ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that H... CHARLIE "TREMENDOUS" JONES ELTON JOHN RITA RUDNER CRYSTAL EVANS ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS ANNE SEXTON AYELET WALDMAN These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... INGRID BETANCOURT I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real... HUNTER TYLO MERYL STREEP I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures s... NAN GOLDIN Extra ... I lost everything. I didn't just lose one thing. I left my house ... with $8.38 to my name... TOM SIZEMORE KING GEORGE V CECELIA AHERN PELE They lost their parents. They lost their normal surroundings and often feel they are at fault. I fel... GORDON JOHNSON When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my ... MARSHA NORMAN I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.<... RUTA SEPETYS JACKSON BROWNE There are children everywhere out there that are lost. The scary thing is the list of children we ha... JOANNA CLARK He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ... RONAN FARROW At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN AUGUSTUS HARE TED NUGENT My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and h... ALEXI ZENTNER Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having chi... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ When I’m away from you I am lost.ELIZA FREED When I was little, my mother always told me to beware of strangers. Today, I tell my children to bew... PATTY RASE HOPSON The majority of parents we come into contact with have lost their faith and therefore have lost any ... LUCINDA VARDEY My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came ho... KEVIN WALLIS MARK TWAIN ANN HOOD 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short tr... BRUCE COCKBURN CINDY SHEEHAN Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me ha... ANTHONY RYAN CANDACE BUSHNELL I have three children who are absolutely devastated. My older kids (understand) but my 5-year-old do... DANIELLE BIMBER I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef... JEWELL PARKER RHODES Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good ... BELLE AURORA SIMON WIESENTHAL JAMAICA KINCAID ORSON SCOTT CARD The people, they relate to me. In my life, I've had a lot of heartache. I lost friends after my brai... JERMAINE WILLIAMS My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One da... ROBERTA PEARCE The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their ... NOLAN NORTH I would say I am viewed as the oldest teenager in my family because they say I never grow old. I mea... BETTY WRIGHT It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for m... CONNIE SMITH Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog... ANDRé ACIMAN BARBARA CORCORAN PHILIPPA GREGORY Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these an... JAMES LEE BURKE ALICE SEBOLD JOHN LENNON JOHN LENNON Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Ma... CRISS ANGEL RAY LEWIS I saw them the day they were putting the poles in and then it was just left. It's a mystery because ... ATHENA HREVATIS So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous... MARY BONO ALGERNON SIDNEY MARIAN KEYES I decided to do something to look after the children who lost their fathers. Something to help them ... DAVID GOGGINS My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pac... WALTER KOHN When I jumped, I lost my balance, ... I thought someone was behind me and I was securing the catch. ... ANQUAN BOLDIN I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph thes... JAMES LEE BURKE Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. ... JOE ESZTERHAS GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now... SAM TRAMMELL I just want you to know, you lost me. You lost a beautiful soul. HENANNIE ZARAGOZA I was tribal chairman. I lost my position there. I wanted to be elected again as tribal chairman ...... ALAN RUSSELL I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an... CAROLYN BYERS RUCH It was valuable to me that I was home with my children during breaks and the summer months. DONNA REAVES J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea... ANDREW WYETH The neighborhood children told me that their Polish Catholic priest said that they could no longer p... LOUISE HALL ASPEN MATIS I heard many parents complain that their children have lost interest in study after they were intoxi... XU XIUYU I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all ta... DR. JOHN ALEXANDER COCKBURN ALEXANDER COCKBURN JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imaginati... ERIC HILL
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I'm really passionate about it. KYRIE IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad. IRVING THALBERG A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it. IRVING THALBERG The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ... IRVING THALBERG Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel. IRVING THALBERG Credit you give yourself is not worth having. IRVING THALBERG Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his... IRVING STONE The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development... IRVING STONE The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa... 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I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, ... 
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There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because... 
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination. 
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. 