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...John Updike
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
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. -
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 -
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 -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga -
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton -
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 -
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
Fiona Shaw -
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
Patrick Chan -
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
Olivia Culpo -
I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
Gabourey Sidibe
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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
Ben Kingsley -
You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
Lisa Kudrow -
Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd -
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura -
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
John Updike