My life is a reading list. - John Irving

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Mammootty is a great phenomenon. . If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar

John Irving

My life is a reading list.

Life, Life Is, List, Lists, Reading

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I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.

Moving, Mean, Expression, Woman, Said

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Fanatical, Generosity, Good Habits, Habit, Habits, Worth

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Kill, Notice, Owen Meany, Tax, Taxes, Way

I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.

Angry, Emotional, Passionate, Silly, Style, Vonnegut

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Obsessed, Obsession, Psychology, Stay

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Ram Gopal Varma

Mammootty is a great phenomenon. . If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar

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Ryan Adams

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

Beautiful, Guitar, Moving, Song, Writing

Meg Cabot

I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

Badger, Conclusion, Girl, Honey, Teenage

William Sloane Coffin

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

Love, Measures, Stature

Robert Crais

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

Childhood, Childhoods, Deal, Drama, Past, Rise