John Updike Quotes

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Topics

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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Jim DeMint

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Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Joan Jett

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The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

John King

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I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

Amy Jackson

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I went through a lot of maturing in a year or two. I left all my best friends, and I didn't really want to make new friends, so I spent a lot of time inside just being depressed.

Soccer Mommy

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I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.

Shooter Jennings

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America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there's no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country.

Tony Evans

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I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

Roger Ebert

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I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

Rupert Sanders

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Investors like to hear that you're in a multi-billion dollar market.

Michael Seibel

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I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

Judy Biggert

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The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.

Joshua Bell

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