John Updike Quotes
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.John Updike
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
Harrison Ford -
Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda -
It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz -
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A. J. Muste -
I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
Tamsin Egerton -
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman -
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
Zack Wheat -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale -
Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
Viktor Orban -
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn -
He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
Jack Youngblood -
I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
Olivia Wilde -
Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
Oprah Winfrey
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
Hal Abelson -
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
Antoni Tapies -
You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
Danny K. Davis -
'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
E. M. Forster -
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike