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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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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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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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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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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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
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You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Mr Shimada 'Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct.'
