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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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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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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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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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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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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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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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
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Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.
