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Getting to state was the greatest thing. As long as the team had goals, it didn't matter if it was me.


Irving Garcia

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IRVING BABBITT Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th...
IRVING PENN A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and...
WASHINGTON IRVING All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
KYRIE IRVING What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
IRVING PENN Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
WASHINGTON IRVING A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi...
WASHINGTON IRVING Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
IRVING STONE This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, ...
JOHN IRVING Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...
IRVING BABBITT My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. T...
KYRIE IRVING After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...
WASHINGTON IRVING Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. ...
AMY IRVING In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
AMY IRVING Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national l...
AMY IRVING When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way...
AMY IRVING There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passi...
AMY IRVING I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choi...
AMY IRVING I'm not very good when people work out of friction... tension. Shouters. Even it's not at me, but ju...
AMY IRVING I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Franc...
AMY IRVING Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft...
AMY IRVING There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to beco...
IRVING KIRSCH I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome...
IRVING KIRSCH With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. ...
JOHN IRVING