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Action Quotes by John Irving
- I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
- (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
- I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
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