John Updike Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Everything can be satirized.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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We are most alive when we’re in love.
