John Updike Quotes
'Whenever somebody tells me to do something my instinct's always to do the opposite. It's got me into a lot of trouble, but I've had a lot of fun.'
Quotes to Explore
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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Movies don't have borders.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do.
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'Whenever somebody tells me to do something my instinct's always to do the opposite. It's got me into a lot of trouble, but I've had a lot of fun.'
