John Updike Quotes
Something about being helpless in bed, people hit you up for sympathy. They've got you where they want you.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
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Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
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A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
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Something about being helpless in bed, people hit you up for sympathy. They've got you where they want you.
