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John Updike Quotes

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Old Age Old Pretty Freelance

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

People Think Strange Matter Used

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Love Sacrifice Doing You

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

Life Best Joy People Powerful Way

I like to wear something I can move in, and light colors because of the stage lights.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

Light Colors I Can Lights Stage

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Knowledge Science Mathematics People

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Action Strong Weak Successful Either

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Experience Yourself Writing Help You

U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.

Immigration Just Because Civil Rights

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Confidence Power Me Generation Ready

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

People World Impact Enjoy Meeting

I spoke with Van Gaal, and he said that I only had a one per cent chance of playing in my position, so I headed to Bayer.

Javier Hernandez

Chance Said Position Playing Only

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

Live Children Time People World Die

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