John Updike Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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Our Samsung Medical Center has caused too big a pain and worry for the people by failing to prevent the infection and spread of MERS. I bow my head in apology.
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Militat omnis amans
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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Nelson '...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife.'
