John Updike Quotes
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I do not cook.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.
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Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.
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I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
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You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.
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Mr Shimada 'Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct.'
