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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Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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In the words of Marcel Proust - and this applies to any woman in the world - if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning... you're in.
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Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.
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It'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.
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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.
