John Updike Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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Acting is in your soul.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.
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O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.
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I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.
