John Updike Quotes
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
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I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?
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The world is a force not a presence.
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The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
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New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
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I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
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In some households you only have to turn up three times before you’re expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.
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Work hard, because it's obviously not always going to be easy. It's a really hard industry. Put yourself out there and put videos online, because that, honestly, is what changed my life.
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What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.
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You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
