John Updike Quotes
You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
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Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.
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The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.
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Truth is not always injured by fiction.
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You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.
