John Updike Quotes
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
Ram Charan
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I'm an honest, open father.
T.I.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
S. J. Rozan
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
Lara Stone
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
Taylor Wilson
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
Edgar Ramirez
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
Fiona Shaw
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From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.
Jeffrey Wright
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I used to be very into fitness and would happily pose for photos in my bikini. Now I look at those and think, 'Where did that body go?' But that was before children.
Penny Lancaster
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
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The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing - My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.
Sara Teasdale
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As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
John Updike