John Updike Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
-
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
-
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
-
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
-
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
-
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
-
I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
-
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
-
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
-
It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
-
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
-
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
-
There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
-
If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
-
I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
-
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
-
In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
-
Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
-
Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
-
What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.
-
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!'
-
One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.
-
Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are.
