John Updike Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
Laurance Rockefeller -
I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Acting is in your soul.
LaTanya Richardson -
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell -
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch -
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine -
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
Tara Strong -
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
Bassem Youssef -
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Agave nectar is a good substitute for refined sugars. It has a relatively low glycaemic index, which means it doesn't cause quick rises in blood sugar levels. It also has a nice, mild flavour.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
Maggie Nelson -
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
H. G. Bissinger -
I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.
John Waters -
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
Joanne Rowling -
Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.
Leslie Jamison -
Let’s not lose our perspective here. The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now.
Bill Bryson -
When fathers are lovingly involved with their daughters from birth, the daughters reap the benefits all their lives. Daughters who had fathers they could count on are the most likely to be drawn to men who treat them well, to see their lovers as dependable people who won't suddenly disappear, and to be consistently orgasmic.
Victoria Secunda -
Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.
John Updike