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John Updike Quotes

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Creative Better Doing Right Activity

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Good God Man Young Young Man Vain

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

People Me Know Want Some People

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Death Flowers Black American Kind

I never had a problem with technique.

Problem Never Technique Had

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

People Believe Audiences Tend

Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world's most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.

Opportunity Great World Game Gaming

Wear a belt! It's an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.

Shoes Together Easy Outfit Way Wear

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Allison Pearson

Marriage Children Remember You Back

I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young, the lead singer of the band, said, 'I want you to draw a horse for the song 'Legend,' which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.'

Simple Song Think Legend Drawing

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

Peter Diamandis

People Friends Remember Years Brains

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

Tea People Organization Start Think

The most important thing in the world is children. St. Jude is literally saving people's lives. It's incredible.

Children People World Important Most

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