John Updike Quotes
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.
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Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.
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Harry to Janice, about the financial situation '...You're in real trouble.'
