John Updike Quotes
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
Dan Aykroyd
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
Patrick Modiano
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
Abigail Washburn
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
Bear Bryant
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Daniel Ek
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I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
Mackenzie Davis
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
Idris Elba
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When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
Abraham Verghese
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I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
Hamid Karzai
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
Carine Roitfeld
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
J. R. Bourne
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks
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Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.
Stephen J. Cannell
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Everybody always thinks I'm a lesbian because I'm a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.
Constance Zimmer
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I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.
Darcey Bussell
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You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike