John Updike Quotes
He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
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You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.
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Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. And music excites me because it puts me in a mind state, whatever that may be.
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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
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He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.
