John Updike Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
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History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.
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There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
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People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
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France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
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When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.
