John Updike Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
Patrick J. Adams -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
Vernon Howard -
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn -
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
Zubin Mehta
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne -
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
Naomi Judd -
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga -
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
Ed Helms -
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane -
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
Dan Hawkins -
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
Jackson Browne -
The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
Jack Ma -
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
J. F. C. Fuller
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Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.
Anthony Doerr -
Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world.
Dave Gibbons -
Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
Walt Disney -
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham Lincoln -
Mim has hung up. She has a life to get on with.
John Updike