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John Updike Quotes

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Patience People Year Healthy Own

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Expecting Album

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Red Way Inside Colour Out Interior

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

History Blind You Deaf Never Sixty

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

Hat Famous More Made Than Yankee

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

Douglas Coupland

You Young Those Really Catholics

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Struggle Men Be Strong Strong Black

The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?

Christopher McCulloch

Me Parent Kind Kid Him Always

When I first moved to New York, I had some colleagues who said I should be my straightest self - whatever that means - when I went into casting offices, but I didn't want to put on an act of what I thought was heterosexual. I just wanted to be myself, and I'm very grateful because I feel like I've been embraced for that.

Myself Grateful New York Colleagues

I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.

Brian Stelfreeze

Simplicity People Black Never Him

A cheese dip is good - it's for when you're like, 'You know what, I've had a long day. I'm just gonna eat a big bowl of cheese, and I'm not gonna care about it.'

Antoni Porowski

Good Day Care Long You Cheese

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

Think Learn You Information Cannot

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

People Think Bright Listen Him Guy

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