John Updike Quotes
When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.
Quotes to Explore
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
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Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
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For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
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When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.
