John Updike Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
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For me, it's always been about the work - it wasn't about, 'Let's go break some ceilings.' I just wanted to tell an important story and do the best work I can. Everything else is secondary.
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I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.
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You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own.
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He didn't have a worry in the world back then. He was in paradise and didn't know it.
