John Updike Quotes
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I do not cook.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.
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The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.
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I wish that young people, most of all, would learn to cut ties with those who make them feel bad about themselves or about the other people they love and care for.
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For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
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I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.
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Mr Shimada 'Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct.'
