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John Updike Quotes

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moment Feel Someone You Skin Lucky

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

Me You Know Him Floating Heavy

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

Wisdom Justice Culture Intelligence

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

People Me Design Meaning Nothing

Honestly, I could care less about other people's opinions about me.

People Me Care Opinions About Less

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

Goals Money Celebrity Never Gain

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Women Humor Writing Drive You Look

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

Stars People Ego Believe More

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

Challenges You Play Own Role Set

Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people.

Love People Know Lucky Some People

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Man Prejudice More Secure He Less

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

Family Home Great Time Fun Me

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Loved Watching Kid Just Watching Tv

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