John Updike Quotes
'Driving is boring,' Rabbit pontificates, 'but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.'
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
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I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
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Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as a country and what we are willing to stand up for.
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Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.
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Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
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'Driving is boring,' Rabbit pontificates, 'but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.'
