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John Updike Quotes

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Depression People Fighting

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

Think Someone Camera Say Stage Got

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

Life Future Time Past People You

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

Romantic I Can Old Watch Sit Film

I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.

Sophie Winkleman

Love World Voice Doing Back Radio

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Mother Brother Me Taste Her Got

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

Children Step Bag Back I Can Skin

Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.

Business Internet Choose Just Because

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

Think Actor Celebrity Difference

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

People Ideas Think Know Want

I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.

Work Respect Great Together Think

I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.

Feel Spirit Just Olympic

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Support People Democracy Transition

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