John Updike Quotes
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I think is a great place to start.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
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Re Florida Just not being senile is considered great down here.
