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 think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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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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Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.
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If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.
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You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
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History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
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In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.
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People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.
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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.'
