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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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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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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All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
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On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.
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We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.
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When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.
