John Updike Quotes
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Quotes to Explore
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Not everyone can look the same, so as long as you look the best that you can look and you feel good, that's all that matters.
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I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.
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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
