John Updike Quotes
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.
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When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
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I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
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In 1791, the right to bear arms to defend against an over-reaching government wasn't theoretical. Today, it's hard to imagine physical weapons serving the same purpose. But it's easy to see how hacktivists might - especially if you broaden the opponents to include hate groups and rapacious multinationals.
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The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
