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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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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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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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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No man may make another free.
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Your mind is the only weapon that can defeat you. No one can defeat you until your mind is clear
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Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone - including governments, companies, and citizens - have an important role to play.
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I've definitely got lists of things I'd love to accomplish as a climber. But let's face it: The world's full of climbers, and the realm of unexplored, unclimbed peaks is shrinking rapidly.
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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...
