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John Updike Quotes

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Support Society Encouragement You

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

John Cassavetes

Talent Humility Gangster You Want

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Andrei Platonov

Live Thinking You Nothing Inside

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

Love Purpose Believe Selfish Think

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

Think Things Terrible I Think

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Music Age Soul Parents Listening

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

More Human Rights Human Rights Than

I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.

People Want Out Anything Miss Who

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Life You Wheel Always Where Started

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

Steven Michael Quezada

Morning Cold Desert Sand Ice Early

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

Community Conflict Inevitable Now

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

Romantic Me Think Say Inside Give

I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school.

School College High School Friends

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