John Updike Quotes
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.John Updike
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
Saint Bernard -
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson -
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
Gary Lineker
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
Usain Bolt -
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw -
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Ted Olson -
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
Camille Paglia -
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
Yehuda Berg -
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Vikas Swarup -
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
Yuna -
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson -
If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
Eberhard Weber -
My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.
Amy Jackson -
I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
Maggie Hassan -
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike