John Updike Quotes
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
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I try to lead by example.
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Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.
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The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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Harry to Janice, about the financial situation '...You're in real trouble.'
