John Updike Quotes

'...This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same.'

John Updike

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• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Street

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Sound

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Girl

• The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Me

• I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Universe
  • Story
  • Over

• The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Children
  • Community
  • Sacrifice

• I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Music
  • Motivate

• I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Black

• Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Your

• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Being
  • Production
  • Proteins

• My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Football
  • Playing
  • Legacy

• I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Want
  • Everyone

• Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Motorcycle

• Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Help
  • Wonder
  • Illusion

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • California
  • Try

• All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reality
  • Easy
  • Author

• I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

  

  Amanda Lindhout

• '...This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same.'

  

  John Updike