John Updike Quotes
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
Fede Alvarez
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
Gavin Hood
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
Karl Lehmann
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
Raghuram Rajan
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
F. Sionil Jose
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
Lane Garrison
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
Ophelia Lovibond
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
Laura Innes
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
Ed Bradley
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
J. A. Konrath
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I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.
Luke Mably
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The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
Tyler Cowen
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In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
Ravi Shankar
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If I get something wrong on air, I get 1,000 emails correcting me instantly, and most of our story suggestions come from viewers.
Cenk Uygur
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
George S. Kaufman
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
