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John Updike Quotes

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Topics

Words Me Thoughts Never Miracle Ink

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.

Work Me Know Done More She

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

Photography Traditional Some Use

I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

Mother Science Job College Baby

In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.

Education Love Women Training People

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

Stephen Dillane

Work Good-Looking Way Guy Being

We want more stuff stamped 'Made in America.'

America Want More Stuff Made

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

Experience Competition Understanding

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

Constitution Person Write Here Been

My early films were very European based. It was 'As It Is In Heaven,' 'Together,' they were great international successes, but then I did, I think, 60 movies or something.

Michael Nyqvist

Great Together Think Early Heaven

I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

Positive I Am Game Think Ahead Far

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

Focus You Relationships Middle Your

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

Love Comedy Doing Acting Sometimes

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