John Updike Quotes

Nelson, about Harry 'I saw him, eventually,' Nelson says, 'as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. ... But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way.'

John Updike

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• All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Marketing
  • Advertising

• God bless nannies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • God
  • Bless
  • God Bless

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Parents

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Animals
  • Recognize

• In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Problems
  • Acquaint

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Chance
  • Had

• You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Appreciate

• I like to be against the odds.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Like
  • Against
  • Odds

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Chemistry
  • Doctrine
  • Endure

• We have a fining system if anyone's late, a dollar a minute. It all goes into a cup and at the end of the tour we have a party.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Money
  • Party
  • Fining System

• Nelson, about Harry 'I saw him, eventually,' Nelson says, 'as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. ... But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way.'

  

  John Updike
  • Money
  • Father
  • Mom