John Updike Quotes
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
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There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
