John Updike Quotes
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I never lie to my fans.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.
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People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
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I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.
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I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
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Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
