John Updike Quotes

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

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• People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Past

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Help
  • Gay

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Food
  • Hug

• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Me
  • Pressure

• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Help
  • Past

• Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Europe
  • Take

• There are people who believe that a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt is more stylish than a supermarket one, and there are people who believe the opposite. There is room for everyone.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • People
  • Believe

• Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

  

  Bob McNair
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Different
  • Important
  • Done

• It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Style

• The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • True