John Updike Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.
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Mim has hung up. She has a life to get on with.
