John Updike Quotes
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...

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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
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If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
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If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.
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I have sought a unified world in my work and use a movable vortex to achieve it.
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As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...