John Updike Quotes
'The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.'
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
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When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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The sun shone on: the shade of the awning vanished in the hot, white, shadowless midday. In that blaze of heat I was loving Paris as never before. And there sitting opposite me, stretching himself luxuriously in the sun, his eyes lazily examining his half-empty drink, was Larry, the one I loved the best … sensationally uninterested.
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Les hommes qui se sont occupés du bonheur des peuples ont rendu leurs proches bien malheureux.
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I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.
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There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
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I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
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'The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.'
