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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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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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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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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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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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
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Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry: we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries.
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Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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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.
