John Updike Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
Maj Sjowall -
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel -
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo -
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
Victoria Aveyard -
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser -
I made nothing happen very slowly.
Gary McCord -
I don't drink coffee.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart -
If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
Becky Lynch -
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
Lara Stone -
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles -
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
A. R. Rahman -
A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson -
You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Emma Thompson -
Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.
Leo Tolstoy -
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
Charles Fourier -
Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
William Butler Yeats -
When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.
John Updike