John Updike Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
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The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.
