John Updike Quotes
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. … No eunuch ever wrote a book.
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People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.
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Seeing the body heal itself and come back from injuries is something that just makes me value my body and health even more. I love everything about it.
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
