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.John Updike
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.
Fidel Castro -
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?
Dana Fox -
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.
Olivia Wilde -
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.
Nas -
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
Rachel Nichols -
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.
Jack Kevorkian
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
Federica Mogherini -
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott -
I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
Gail Porter -
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.
Dale Carnegie -
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres -
The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
Sam Jaeger
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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.
Dan Deacon -
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
Barbara Bush -
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
Harold Edward Holt -
Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky -
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.
Salman Rushdie
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
Andrew Lincoln -
YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour -
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.
John Updike